It's more so, you don't need to write defensive code and you're actively encouraged not to... The mantra is akin to "let it fail, it will recover." Once you st

It's more so, you don't need to write defensive code and you're actively encouraged not to... The mantra is akin to "let it fail, it will recover." Once you start doing it, it becomes more apparent what the difference is... And that's not to say you can't design fault tolerant systems, it's just "easier" to do so with Erlang/BEAM.