Was Antiweb inspired by Erlang?
Not directly, no. Hoytech engineers have never looked at any Erlang implementations and have never programmed in Erlang. But we like what we hear. Antiweb’s philosophy is similar to Erlang’s in several respects: • If an unexpected condition is encountered, die as quickly and loudly as possible. Never try to clean-up or recover. A process cannot do that because it has failed. Some other process that hasn’t failed will clean-up after it. • Threads (pre-emptively scheduled shared memory processes) are used nowhere. All inter-process communication is done by explicit message passing.
