Comment by never_inline

> This isn’t just academic elegance, it kept phone switches running with five nines of availability.

Hmm....

> Erlang is the strongest form of the isolation argument, and it deserves to be taken seriously, which is why what happens next matters.

OK I think I know who wrote this.

> The problem isn’t that developers write circular calls by accident. It’s that deadlock-freedom doesn’t compose.

Is there a need to regugriate it in this format? "two protocols that are individually deadlock-free can still combine to deadlock in an actor system." This is the actually meaningful part.

> Forget to set a timeout on a gen_server:call?

People have pointed out its factually wrong in the thread. Eh

> This is the discipline tax. It works when the team is experienced, the codebase is well-maintained, and the conventions are followed consistently. It erodes when any of those conditions weaken, and given enough time and enough turnover they do.

I know this is an LLM tell, but can't point out. It makes me uneasy to read this. Maybe the rule of three? Maybe the reguggeiation of a elementary SE concept in between a technical description? Maybe because it's tryhard to sound smart? All three I guess.

I could go on, but sigh, man don't use these clankers to write prose. They're like negative level gzip compression.