87: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 2
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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Is Async a Task Extreme?
Elixir is really good for parallel, obviously good. But at the same time, this embarrassing parallel thing where I just want to execute a bunch of things that start a bunch of processes or in a lickserv, we say we start a lot of tasks. And it made sense to implement kind of a subset of flow. It's really problematic differently than flow. That's how a task is extreme came to be. So if you have like a collection, imagine you have a collection of URLs, for example, when you want to start processing those URLs,. You can do that with async stream.
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