He advocates "fail-fast" and "share-nothing" as fundamental principles - that's the point. With no sharing a failure of a single process affects no other, unlik

He advocates "fail-fast" and "share-nothing" as fundamental principles - that's the point. With no sharing a failure of a single process affects no other, unlike threads with shared stack and state. For the same reasons Erlang is functional language with single bindings. Sharing of immutable data is OK, so message passing might be implemented using OS shared memory services.