Reading about the actor model in Erlang makes me really excited to learn it at some point http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8107612/the-actor-model-why-is-erlang-special-or-why-do-you-need-another-language-for …
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Green threads are like virtual threads, Erlang's actors are like virtual processes - message based and arbitrarily spawnable / replaceable
Process not responding? No problem, kill it and restart. Want to share some state? Tough luck, you got to message it first. Deadlocks? Never