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Re:Level 3 Global Outage by peterwwillis on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:35PM (#24323905)
I have spent hours and hours banging my head against Erlang distributed system bugs in production. I am absolutely mystified why anyone thought just using a particular programming language would prevent these scenarios. If it's Turing-complete, expect the unexpected.
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Re:Level 3 Global Outage by BoorishBears on Sunday August 30, 2020 @01:43PM (#24324443)
The idea isn't that Erlang is infallible in the design of distributed systems.

The idea is it takes away enough foot-guns that if you're banging your head against systems written it in, you'd be banging your head even harder and more often if the same implementor had used another language

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