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Ergo: Erlang-inspired event driven actor framework in Go

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175 points nateb2022 | 1 comments | 12 Sep 24 11:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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nahuel0x ◴[12 Sep 24 16:56 UTC] No.41522944[source]▶
Three big differences in comparison with Erlang: 1- Cannot externally kill a process (yes, ergo process have a Kill method but the process will be in a "zombie" state until the current message handlers returns... maybe stuck forever) 2- No hot code reloading. 3- No per-process GC.
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throwaway894345 ◴[12 Sep 24 17:50 UTC] No.41523543[source]▶
I've never written any Erlang before--why do I care about per-process GC?
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1. com ◴[12 Sep 24 17:55 UTC] No.41523595[source]▶
Much lighter impact on system performance that world-GC. Simpler algorithms as well, so lower risk that you’ll ever get performance regressions - or worse.