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I looked at Erlang for a while and I liked it. Now I want to learn Elixir. However I ask myself why one should prefer it over Scala+Akka


For one, Erlang has much better latency, as it has process-local garbage collection. In Akka, if the gc has to do a major collection then all threads must be paused.


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