[erlang-questions] Erlang and Akka

[Youngkin, Rich]

>> On 08/28, Xiao Jia wrote:
>> But in such languages as C++/Java/... we are not forced to mutate
variables
>> so we can still employ some coding style/guidance of creating new objects
>> instead of mutating existing objects most of the time.
...

On 8/28 Fred Hebert wrote:
> Ah but did the people writing the libraries you use think the same way?
> One of the advantages of Erlang is that because of its constraints,
> *everyone* programming in it ends up making decisions that are generally
> amenable to concurrency and to some extent, distribution. Those who
> don't tend to make libraries that hardly scale on a single node to begin
> with (with heavy bottlenecks and whatnot).

...

Is this true of Erlang libraries that use NIFs and or Port drivers?
Specifically, I'm thinking of blocking the VM scheduler(s).

Cheers,
Rich
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