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The Early Years of SST
I love the conceptual model of actors, even though I think Joe Armstrong has told me a few times that the oh yeah, we didn't set out to implement the acting model. It just happened. This feels like one of the same moments where there are some fundamental sort of truths, some characteristics that are universally good for a particular scenario. One in more sort of practical programming language design way, the other one from a more conceptual thinking about computation models. But yeah, it's really cool. You know a field's making progress when you start to see ideas converge together.