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I used to love to idea of a global interpretator and/or a single thread (coding without concurrency). It was great until it wasn't. Learning Elixir helped me

• dboreham 9y ago
  The thing is : it isn't an "idea" at all. These projects ended up with a big lock, or not tolerating reentrancy due to history -- they were developed at a time, and in an environment where there were no threads (or where support for threads wasn't of interest to the developer). It's just a bug. Not an idea, not a benefit. All the talk of it being the best way is nonsense invented after the fact to try to justify something that's just broken.
• specialist 9y ago
  Ya, my next green field project will definitely use something actor or CSP flavored. Maybe clojure based, more likely Elixir or equiv.
• defined 9y ago
  I'm an Erlang practitioner since 2007 and I approve this message ;) Learn Elixir or Erlang and show that there's an alternative to Node.js that's both fun and powerful - and battle tested.