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Put the two together and you get Erlang

Interesting, some people still use Inches, Spoons and Buckets to measure things...

What happens if one of the children calls panic() ?

Maybe read /proc/self/maps and /proc/self/mem and try to locate the BigInteger value in the JVM heap?

If you want to learn functional programming, concurrent programming and fault tolerant system design at the same time then you should pick Erlang :)

This is an OS-less web server VM, basically an modified Erlang VM to run directly on "almost" bare-metal

Time to use UUIDs for project names :)

In the Erlang world, you do that by creating behaviors.

You can add the soft realtime characteristics of the VM to the mix. That's not something you can just add to the JVM as a library either.

There are plenty of successes out there: Riak, Ejabberd, Whatsapp messenger, Klarna, Demonware, Soundrop, Wooga... Just to name a few

Well, it all depends on what you mean by message passing. If you mean call a method or a function passing it a value type, then yes you can do message passing in any language.

If on the other hand you mean passing data between completely isolated active entities (processes) that get scheduled for execution independently based on available CPU cores, I/O operations, receiver mailbox size... Then you need an multitasking operating system, which is in fact what the Erlang VM is.

This is seriously creepy

I had the same experience concerning XFS, I experienced repeated data loss on power failure about 4 years ago. These days I just stick with ext4

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