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The fact that the entire ecosystem is based around the actor model is one of the primary ones. It's allowed for code that isn't simply a library, but effectively an entire application, to be used as open source to be dumped into your system, because it has tools like Erlang Term Storage, Mnesia, and other devices to make it easy.

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You're still not explaining why this allows to do things that can't be done in other languages.

Probably because that claim makes no sense.

Reductions. How do you ensure in other languages (or in other VMs) that every actor will get the same cpu time and that none can block the others? That's a tricky problem to solve as a lib.

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