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The actor model existed before Erlang, and Erlang doesn't have some kind of a monopoly on it. Akka is pretty good too.

Same as every OOP isn't "something that exists already in Java"

Haha, I’m with you there. I was considering calling that out in the post.

I dearly love Erlang & co., but its learning curve is way too steep for most developers today. Our goal is to bring the benefits of Erlang/Akka/Orleans/etc. to more developers by:

(a) supporting mainstream languages, and

(b) lowering the technical and conceptual barriers to entry.

Erlang has its quirks but Elixir at least is an order of magnitude easier to learn than Rust or Java.

Meanwhile, I'm a rust developer who is struggling to learn elixir :D

The key here is Typescript.