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Sometimes I feel that in modern distributed systems, we are very slowly and haphazardly recreating Erlang running on a IBM mainframe. What if we could treat an

Sometimes I feel that in modern distributed systems, we are very slowly and haphazardly recreating Erlang running on a IBM mainframe. What if we could treat an entire datacenter as a unified whole, a la an IBM mainframe, and use an Erlang style actor system for cross-region communication/coordination?

slondr 4y ago
You can do that today, with Erlang, with relatively little setup
- kimi 4y ago
  And that's why there is so much interest in Erlang/Elixir.
  - atli-a 4y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 Lots of interest.
yellowapple 4y ago
I'd go further and assert that we're very slowly and haphazardly recreating an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Multics.