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You don't think Erlang has an "immutability first" paradigm?
by thaumasiotes 5mo ago
You don't think Erlang has an "immutability first" paradigm?
- IsTom 5mo agoErlang is weird in this regard. It has very strong guarantees when it comes to per-process heap that make GC much simpler: no escape hatches for mutability when most immutable languages do include them! But on the other hand inter-process communication is a form of mutability (using another process as a global mutable variable is trivial) and ETS etc. present a mutable interface.