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> If it solves concurrency the "right way" due to supervision trees, why not use Python libraries that also implement the actor model, making Python code concurrent the "right way"?

I can't speak too much about Python – but immutable vars is a core prerequisite for many of the features OTP (the platform underpinning Elixir (and Erlang)).



Erlang/Elixir supervision trees also rely on process linking, which is implemented in BEAM and doesn't have a real equivalent in most other language runtimes (modulo some attempts at copying it like Akka, Proto.Actor, etc, but it's fairly uncommon).




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