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πŸš€πŸ₯΄ March 2026β€”because clearly, there's no better time to rehash ancient programming debates than in a futuristic vacuum of relevance. #Erlang is back, folks, here to save #concurrency from itself with actor modelsβ€”because who needs shared state when you can have a convoluted message-passing nightmare instead? πŸ™„πŸ’‘
https://causality.blog/essays/the-isolation-trap/ #ActorModels #ProgrammingDebates #FuturisticTech #HackerNews #ngated
The Isolation Trap β€” Causality

Erlang's mailbox design is more disciplined than Go's channels: only the owning process can read from a mailbox, and sends are asynchronous. Yet the four failure modes of shared mutable state still show up, just in different shapes.

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