On: Erlang - Not just fault tolerant, but highly fault tolerant

[oomkiller]

He did qualify that statement with "basically" and if you think about it, a "callback" function really is just sending a message.

[aneth → oomkiller]

Yes, however at the implementation level, message based concurrency is shared memory concurrency (as I understand anyway.) Callbacks seem to me an entirely a different abstraction.