Every language has its sins. Erlang's greatest sin is probably the unbounded queue that makes up every process's mailbox.
@jmhodges @bascule @mentalguy Do you prefer Go-style blocking sends? I'm concerned about deadlocks: see Simon Marlow https://plus.google.com/109566665911385859313/posts/FAmNTExSLtz …
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@pcwalton@jmhodges@mentalguy no, I strongly dislike blocking sends (and discuss this in the linked message) -
@bascule@jmhodges@mentalguy Understood, was asking@jmhodges :)
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@pcwalton@jmhodges@bascule@mentalguy STM in ghc doesn't have fairness, whereas MVars in GHC do have fairnessThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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