Erlang: A few notes on message passing

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Message passing has always been central to Erlang, and while reasonably well-documented we’ve avoided going into too much detail to give us more freedom when implementing it. There’s nothing preventing us from describing it in a blog post though, so let’s have a closer look!

Erlang processes communicate with each other by sending each other signals (not to be confused with Unix signals). There are many different kinds and messages are just the most common. Practic...

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