At the Abstractions conference in Pittsburgh in 2016, Joe Armstrong was hanging out in the hallway with his swag bag, just a regular engineer complaining about Jira and his manager (he had no interest in managing) and asking people's opinion about the schedule and lunch places. We were looking at the program for the next sessions and someone said there's a talk about ideas for adding concurrency features to Node, and we said great, lets go, and a few of us went to go stand in the back of that one.
On a number of points the presenter was proposing, like message passing, immutable structures, and process tree management, the presenter would say, "but Erlang's had this feature for many years..." and the room would laugh and turn around and acknowledge Joe. He was modest but the validation must have been nice.
On a number of points the presenter was proposing, like message passing, immutable structures, and process tree management, the presenter would say, "but Erlang's had this feature for many years..." and the room would laugh and turn around and acknowledge Joe. He was modest but the validation must have been nice.