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Re:Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing by throwawaymaths on Friday January 27, 2023 @11:19AM (#34547707)
That's wrong. Fault tolerance is basically the default. Yes you have to build a supervision tree, but unless you're writing a one-off script, you have to build it to anyways to do anything.
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Re:Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing by mapcars on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:03AM (#34578219)
Well you confirming what I said - you have to build it, it's not that Erlang programs automatically never fail and always handle problem correctly as required.
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