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

submitted 1 year ago by gpopides@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] qaz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year 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.