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It's fun to read confirmation of the comparability of these platforms. On a related topic, I'd love to hear more from Parallel Universe, pron, or others at lar
by heavenlyhash 10y ago
It's fun to read confirmation of the comparability of these platforms.
On a related topic, I'd love to hear more from Parallel Universe, pron, or others at large here in the HN crowd about supervision models. I've been seeing the wisdom of a supervision tree for error handling more and more in golang code I've written lately.
Supervisors can be composed given channels as a primitive, but it still seems to be another thing entirely to do that, full of subtlety and careful engineering before you'll be able to reap the rewards of good sane-by-default concurrent error handling. Erlang seems to have a fantastic reputation here, and I understand Quasar has built a lot on the same theories; what are the essential elements behind that, if we want to mirror it in other languages?
- pron 10y agoUnless you have actor failure as a built-in primitive as in Erlang VMs, an essential component is exceptions. BTW, I think Quasar's supervisors are pretty much identical to Erlang's.