Just a nitpick -- the actor model was not chosen, the BEAM just happens to look like an actor model. The BEAM architecture was chosen for fault tolerance and t

Just a nitpick -- the actor model was not chosen, the BEAM just happens to look like an actor model. The BEAM architecture was chosen for fault tolerance and the features you want for fault tolerance naturally guide you to something actor-ish. Also, the actor model says very little about fault tolerance concern (its concern is in improving computational efficiency bottlenecks)