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Re:Erlang/OTP by Example by ilovecaching on Sunday October 21, 2018 @11:33AM (#18268518)
This is an implementation detail that you have no control over. From the point of a view of a process, io is synchronous. This is very limiting. It's better to keep decisions of concurrency in libraries rather than bake it into the language.
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Re:Erlang/OTP by Example by jeremyjh on Sunday October 21, 2018 @12:05PM (#18268661)
Can you elaborate on the limits this imposes? What is it that you can do with direct access to an event loop that you cannot do in Erlang?
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