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> Also you can send functions and code over the wire as well to run. Making some very interesting things that are just impossible to do in other languages.

Well, you could do this in any language that has 'eval' really, which includes most dynamic languages. Unless you're referring to something else?



Erlang provides location transparency for processes, meaning that you can send a message to a Pid (process identifier) as if it were running locally, when in fact it's running on another VM on another machine.


> Unless you're referring to something else?

jtwebman means. Elixir uses the actor model to enable concurrency across processes (internal and external).

It's very very easy to scale horizontally using BEAM.




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