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chapter 14 (concurrent programming) of Dave Thomas' tutorial (much enjoying the course) starts with: "One of Elixir’s key features is the idea of packaging code into small chunks that can be run independently and concurrently. If you’ve come from a conventional programming language, this may worry you. Concurrent programming is “known” to be difficult, and there’s a performance penalty to pay when you create lots of processes. Elixir doesn’t have these issues, thanks to the architecture of the Erlang VM on which it runs. [..] And each process can contain its own state - in a way, processes in Elixir are like objects in an object-oriented system (but they have a better sense of humor)."

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