Regarding Erlang/Elixir, the author seems to miss the point of the main difference between BEAM and the JVM. Granted, you can implement an actor-model on the J

Regarding Erlang/Elixir, the author seems to miss the point of the main difference between BEAM and the JVM. Granted, you can implement an actor-model on the JVM, just like Akka. But BEAM is designed first-hand for this process as first-class citizen mindset. It is much cheaper to deal with, garbage collection is much better and granular as well.