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It is well suited to running concurrently as in, many cores, and in a distributed fashion, across many computers. It was built to run telephone switches and sim
by lawik 7y ago
It is well suited to running concurrently as in, many cores, and in a distributed fashion, across many computers. It was built to run telephone switches and similar highly available, high performance gear in a way that is resilient to failures.
Node is mostly single-threaded still, right? The Erlang VM, Beam, runs truly concurrently. Also, a few large pieces of CPU work cannot block the scheduler indefinitely. I'm not aware of a runtime that works quite like it. Suits me well. I use it throigh Elixir.
It is not the fastest in any given metric from what I know but I think it delivers enormously well in real life scenarios.