Writing Python like it’s Elixir (or Erlang)

David Delassus
11 min readFeb 11, 2024

Elixir must be one of my favorite language, both in terms of feature-set and philosophy. I consider the BEAM (the Erlang VM) to be one of the best piece of technology we have, that is my entirely subjective opinion and nothing you can say will ever change it 🙂

I have this opinion because of 3 things mainly:

  • the concurrency model, often wrongly called Actor model¹

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