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I see this in Elixir all the time too. Lots of people seem to think that immutability combined with message passing makes their program immune to races. As a

I see this in Elixir all the time too. Lots of people seem to think that immutability combined with message passing makes their program immune to races. As a consequence I see all sorts of designs with races all over the place.

malloryerik 6y ago
Indeed there's a discussion of this in the official Elixir site's Getting Started guide: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/ets.html#race-conditions https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/ets.html#rac...