Once you reach a certain level of activity in the system where the garbage collector can no longer keep up (and it will happen), then every line of code in your system is now a potential failure point that can leave the whole program in a bad state. Lisp has this problem. Java has this problem. Erlang does not.
Recent articles
- My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends - 10th January 2025
- Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow - 4th January 2025
- I still don't think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone - 2nd January 2025