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		strictfp on April 7, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Erlang Matters I would love process isolation on the JVM (several smaller heaps), and I'm not even into the actor model. Plus I can imagine accidental mutability really being a problem. In my Akka course much effort was spent on explaining how to avoid side effect of it (no pun intended).

ssmoot on April 7, 2016 [–]

I guess the accidental mutability is a good point. Working in Scala, I've never encountered that.

You do learn not to close over local scopes in futures pretty quickly though.

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