@sergiodnila @avdi if you're talking about Cliff Click, he had doubts about both actors and STM
@sergiodnila FWIW you are far from the first person to trot out the "You just don't understand Erlang!" argument without a technical defense
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@bascule well your arguments against it weren't technical either. -
@sergiodnila AFAICT you didn't even read it -
@bascule i did read it. -
@sergiodnila you might reread "Immutable state sucks and isn't necessary for Erlang-Style Concurrency". That's exactly what Rust provides -
@bascule I agree, if is isolated, one program counter per memory region, is good enough. Immutable state doesn't sucks. I am rereading it -
@sergiodnila it would more aptly be phrased "immutable state as the only option". Haskell, for example, provides MVars... -
@bascule well, immutable state can also help performance, it all depends on how you use it. -
@sergiodnila Rust is immutable by default! :O - 12 more replies
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