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Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right

by Variant Systems variantsystems.io published 2026-02-2216 min read

What makes BEAM and OTP different from async/await, threads, and actors. Process isolation, supervisors, and why Erlang's model keeps winning 40 years later.

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