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Erlang VM and OTP is magical. Erlangs stability is derived from OTP, having process hierarchies, running multiple servers, and designing VM/language/OTP from t
by njharman 16y ago
Erlang VM and OTP is magical. Erlangs stability is derived from OTP, having process hierarchies, running multiple servers, and designing VM/language/OTP from the ground up and continuously there after as a integrated system capable of many nines uptime.
JVM is awesome in other ways.
- daleharvey 16y agoOTP is a massive part of erlang applications stability and OTP is written entirely inside userland, it needs a VM which provides process isolation and message passing which isnt (obviously) beyond the JVM, sure it wasnt design from the ground up to do so but that does not mean it wont (and doesnt) work