ISistvan__·May 22, 2015
Thanks. I think Erlang is the grandfather of languages using the actor pattern and at the same time Joe realized that POSIX threads does not belong to business logic code and it can be done without leaking the number of actual OS threads to the user's codebase. On the top of that Joe also implemented the message passing to avoid the shared memory that is a serious problem from the safety point of view for applications with threads. One thread can take down the entire process execution. Addressing these in Erlang made it possible to write the first commercial system with extra high availability and fault tolerance.
JVM is obviously great a VM, and Scala brings most of the Erlang (and many other languages) features to the table. I am not sure about the fault tolerance. I need to look into how Akka implements the actors.
> Concurrency means
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synchronizing and sending messages between
> processes.
I think in Erlang you can do only async sending and when the receiving process wakes up it gets it through one of the means you mentioned.
http://bartoszmilewski.com/2009/02/10/message-passing-sync-o...
> Erlang can't cope with this load btw.
This is what I am curious about. I have seen only one big system written in Erlang that was massive big. WhatsApp was also running in Erlang and they achieved something like 1M connection/server. That was impressive. I am wondering how could you do that with Akka?
> https://github.com/puniverse/quasar
I am following the development of these, starting to use it in Clojure soon, I am curious how it works out. Personally I prefer Aleph on the JVM for Clojure projects but wanna see what is happening in Quasar & co.
https://github.com/ztellman/aleph