The biggest QOL feature of Erlang compared to other "concurrent" systems like node.js for example is that you have the comfort of executing blocking calls. Bloc

The biggest QOL feature of Erlang compared to other "concurrent" systems like node.js for example is that you have the comfort of executing blocking calls. Blocking for the caller that is. No need to pass callbacks. You write your code sequentially (for the caller) and the magic happens. You can wait as long as you want.