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> Well-designed Erlang systems can fail gracefully and self-heal locally...but they’re only as fault-tolerant as their distributed architecture and ops discipline allows

Correct.

> you went for an ad hominem

Not my intention. I asked a simple question, and you answered a question with a question, effectively gish galloping me with "but there are ways it can crash" except nobody said there wasn't. It stopped feeling like a technical debate at that point.

FWIW, I didn't make the original comment you replied to, I just pointed out that this statement:

> "Practically never crash" ignores software bugs, resource exhaustion, or bad architecture

felt like a surface response to the OPs sentiment of localized failures not tanking an entire software system.



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