However, Erlang lacks the following: Instead of using exception handling, Erlang relies on silent process failure which is supposed to be detected by n

However, Erlang lacks the following: Instead of using exception handling, Erlang relies on silent process failure which is supposed to be detected by nonresponse to messages of other processes. Only somewhat true. Sending message to non-existing process will not fail, but there is erlang:monitor/2 API call which allows to deal with such situations.