Gleam OTP: Fault-Tolerant Multi-Core Programming with Actor Framework
By
TheWiggles
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Summary
This article documents Gleam OTP, a library that implements the OTP (Open Telecom Platform) actor framework for the Gleam programming language. It enables developers to build fault-tolerant, multi-core programs using actor-based concurrency patterns. The library provides abstractions for building robust concurrent systems but notes that not all Erlang/OTP functionality is included, as some features cannot be represented in a type-safe way or are still under development.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledFault tolerant multi-core programs with OTP, the BEAM actor framework.
Gleam's actor system is built with a few primary goals.
Not all Erlang/OTP functionality is included in this library.
Some is not possible to represent in a type safe way, so it is not included.
Other features are still in development, such as further process supervision.
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