I recommend the talk The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Sasa Juric. https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE The thing that Erlang and Elixir h

I recommend the talk The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Sasa Juric. https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE The thing that Erlang and Elixir have different is the BEAM VM and its support of concurrent processes at the VM level. So there are some things that they can do that Akka can't. For example, the scheduler is preemptive and keeps processes alive even though there may be rogue processes pegging the CPU.