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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by molloy on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:54PM (#13477013)
> I've yet to find a language that can communicate between threads as performant-ly.

Minor nitpick: Erlang uses processes, not threads. Your comment doesn't explicitly say that Erlang uses threads though, so perhaps I'm being overly pedantic.

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Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) by ams6110 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @07:15PM (#13477148)
But an Erlang process is not the same as an OS process, or even an OS thread. It's managed by the Erlang VM and is very lightweight.
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