> I don't really understand this obsession with messages. > We're moving away from it. This is not how we program in the 21st century. Maybe it should be? La

> I don't really understand this obsession with messages. > We're moving away from it. This is not how we program in the 21st century. Maybe it should be? Languages like Erlang and — to a much lesser extent — Go use message-passing semantics in at least some places. To paraphrase Chesterton, message-passing has not been tried and found wanting; it's been found unusual and not tried.