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Erlang/elixir processes to the process supervisor when an error happens and the process dies: (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by gpopides to c/[email protected]

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[–] qaz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Could you provide some context for the people who don’t use Erlang?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Erlang VM is supposed to be used for applications that need high reliability (it was developed for the telecom industry). A common idiom in Erlang applications is running many instances of a process and letting it crash when facing an unrecoverable error. After it crashes, it restarts, hence the meme.