Although as a fan of Elixir I agree somewhat with some of the conclusions of the article, it deserves flagging as a HN submission because of flawed methodology, lack of numbers and clickbaity title (yes, clickbaiting is passe).
Thank you. The article sounds like it could have been a fantastic research and even help fix some compiler/standard library bugs on the side. But in reality it probably was generated by ChatGPT. I've load tested NodeJS myself and had a different failure mode (connections getting dropped, not "cascading failures", whatever this means).
I've load tested erlang and had cascading failures in my code. While I love it, erlang is not a silver bullet. I also managed to find a one-liner that will block whole erlang vm for many minutes with 100%cpu usage on only one core, so it's not perfect here too, but it's one of those "well, don't do that in this way" cases. Joe Armstrong was intrigued :D
