Hmm, that google search leads to this ugly exchange, mid 2010: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448463 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448463 Anyway,

Hmm, that google search leads to this ugly exchange, mid 2010: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448463 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448463 Anyway, benchmarks will always show GHC beating Erlang/BEAM, but here's a Simon (or one of his co-authors)saying that he's not into reinventing wheels, he's just going to copy good parts of erlang: http://blog.romanandreg.com/post/6797527470/erlang-and-haskell-sitting-on-a-tree http://blog.romanandreg.com/post/6797527470/erlang-and-haske... slide 41's pretty funny (by akka author): http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/akka-scala-summit-oscon-2010 http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/akka-scala-summit-oscon-201... I have a hazy recollection of a F# user or maybe a Softie saying they're doing the same thing with MailboxProcessors, but i can't google it. Who/why are all these people borrowing/copying/appropriating from OTP behaviors?