On the contrary, the implementation of Erlang's hot code reloading forces state to be separated from the code. If you look at Erlang's gen_server, every call re

On the contrary, the implementation of Erlang's hot code reloading forces state to be separated from the code. If you look at Erlang's gen_server, every call requires you to return a new State object, which is passed to the next function call. In other words, you can compare the Erlang's virtual machine with a container itself, and everything old is new again!