What makes Erlang (and Elixir) great isn't just the actor model, it's the language-level commitment to it. Things that would mess with concurrency (say, race co

What makes Erlang (and Elixir) great isn't just the actor model, it's the language-level commitment to it. Things that would mess with concurrency (say, race conditions on the reading and modification of a global variable) are simply unexpressible in BEAM languages.