Switching to Elixir

Re:Switching to Elixir by az09mugen on Saturday November 11, 2023 @12:30AM (#38227898)

Erlang did appear after the creation of the actor model. The actor model is from 1973 : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model And Erlang is from 1987 : https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28langage%29

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Re:Switching to Elixir by hosh on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:29AM (#38231692)

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/277469

Looks like I misread it. While the Actor model was conceived before Erlang, the Erlang actor model was developed in parallel. It isn’t a pure implementation of Actors (everything is an Actor, making it closer fo Smalltalk). Only processes are Actors. It also implies that Akka is not a true Actor model as conceived in the originao ‘73 paper.

This goes into greater detail on the history: https://www.labouseur.com/courses/erlang/history-of-erlang-a...

In any case, there are not many contemporary systems that uses these ideas.

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