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There are a lot of languages that now claim to be 'Actor Model' and have only a shade on Erlang's fault tolerance and load balancing. That term no longer has the gravitas it once had.


The actor model in general doesn't really care about fault tolerance in the way that erlang does.


And this would be part of that “minimized as being nice that I felt was essential” thing I mentioned in my original comment.


sure i would argue that Erlang isn't really actor model, because the error handling was the first priority and that is what drove them to build processes with message passing as the primitive -- so it just happened to look like actor model.




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