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Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

In the first half of his introduction to actor concurrency, Alex Miller discussed the limitations of shared-state concurrency and explained how the actor model is expressed in Erlang. While Erlang is ...

From time to time I’ve posted about Erlang on this site. It’s the Good & Plenty of programming languages. Everyone has heard of it, but not many folks like it, and it’s always a little interesting ...

I'm doing a uni project on concurrency, with specific focus on C. There are two classical high-level approaches to concurrency: The actor model (Erlang) and CSP (Go). Neither of these seem to be ...

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and now with Google, hails languages such as Erlang, Clojure as developers deal with multicore chips Rather than using threads, functional programming presents the ...