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Swift-erlang-actor-system


I'm excited to share a new actor system we've been building for Swift's distributed actors: swift-erlang-actor-system. This actor system enables Swift programs to join a distributed Erlang cluster. Here's an example of a simple chat program using the actor system: Demo Video Erlang (and other languages that run on its VM) can connect multiple runtime systems together with distributed Erlang. Each runtime is referred to as a "node". Erlang also supports "C nodes", which allow a program other ...

This actor system enables Swift programs to join a distributed Erlang cluster. In the otp-interop GitHub organization, you'll also find elixir_pack, a package for bundling Elixir applications to run on iOS and other Apple platforms. We've also started exploring using distributed Erlang for client-server interaction by filtering messages before accepting them on the server.

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