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What about a more general message-passing mailbox approach? This works really well in the Erlang/gen_server/gen_fsm world. (and in plenty of other contexts, but
by dbt00 7mo ago
What about a more general message-passing mailbox approach? This works really well in the Erlang/gen_server/gen_fsm world. (and in plenty of other contexts, but Erlang's OTP is still some of the best, simplest incarnation of these things)
- scuff3d 7mo ago“The problem with most programming languages is that they implement concurrency as libraries on top of sequential languages. Erlang is a concurrent language at the core; everything else is just a poor imitation implemented in libraries.” -Joe Armstrong
- rciorba 7mo agoI mean, the "one-queue per consumer" they eventually ended up with, is basically an inbox that the sequential process reads from.