I can offer you my understanding. I think this way we allow multiple light processes to be created and this should work well with multicore processors. Overhea

I can offer you my understanding. I think this way we allow multiple light processes to be created and this should work well with multicore processors. Overhead you are talking about can only be mental as processes in Elixir are very light. I think compared to other similar languages, at least for me Elixir doesn't require as much overthinking. Now, you could also say that I wasn't working on complex apps with it, so that might be why. Anyhow, this is my view.