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It's not though. Processes can be supervised and crashes can just lead to "restart with good state" behavior. It's not that you don't try handling any errors at
by ricketycricket 1y ago
It's not though. Processes can be supervised and crashes can just lead to "restart with good state" behavior. It's not that you don't try handling any errors at all, you just can be confident that anything you missed won't bring the system down.
And Elixir is strongly typed by most definitions. Perhaps you mean static?
- immibis 1y agoYou can be more confident. But remember that time an Ericsson switch crashed upon handling a message that it sends to adjacent switches every time it restarts? That crashed the whole network, and you could still do that in Erlang.
- uncircle 1y ago“Remember that one time that software crashed?” The fact that you recall a single instance of crashing software says a lot about the quality assurance of the BEAM.