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I'd love to hear your thoughts on what you'd like to see beyond Erlang. I'm new to Elixir/Erlang, so very curious to see it in a broader perspective.

• protomyth 9y ago
  I love Erlang and their attitude about keeping systems running. Plus, the syntax gets a bad rap when its just different. Sadly, the process and state models are different from what really interests me in agents.
  • mercer 9y ago
    Which part interests you about agents?
    • protomyth 9y ago
      I'm having a hard time writing up a complete answer, and will probably someday write an actual article, but I think the key for me is loose coupling of functionality and mobile code being a very interesting way to scale up a server farm. The whole thought of combining agents and tuple spaces into a system seems a lot closer to true reuse in software than objects has been. I think an agent programming language, a good speech act based communication language instead of the typical API, decent data types, and tuple spaces would make for a heck of a nice programming environment. I've had a hobby project for a long time to bring those elements together but I am still in the learning phase.