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I am interested in what he replied back on how Erlang avoids the common pitfalls? Would it be possible to post about it?

• tombert 7y ago
  Basically, he explained that shared-memory systems simply don't make sense for distributed programs. It was years ago, but I believe he said something to the effect of "imagine that there's a server in Europe, and a server in America. Where does that shared memory exist?? Shared memory violates the laws of physics!" He then explained that since Erlang processes don't share any memory, and the only way for them to communicate is via message-passing, there's no need for locks or anything like that.
  • jamesblonde 7y ago
    Like the way he described thread safety as an oxymoron...