>You can absolutely do anything you can do in Erlang in another language. Some tasks will be easier, or harder, however. Lots of languages have actor systems.

>You can absolutely do anything you can do in Erlang in another language. Some tasks will be easier, or harder, however. Lots of languages have actor systems. But how many have preemptive multi-tasking on these actor systems? I can't think of any at the moment. I am well versed in Akka for Scala and the lack of preemptive multi-tasking for actors is a big pain in the ass. Erlang's advanced BEAM and support for this is it's main selling point, imo.