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Erlang has absolutely no security :-(


So what kind of security does this have? The article doesn't mention the term.


In a Citadel, distributed Actors are going to be necessary.

See the following:

    Citadels: faster response time and better information integration than remote datacenters 
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2836282


Also see offerings from Lightbend and Microsoft.


Erlang incorporated some of the ideas of the Actor Abstraction

but missed a few things. See

See article and video here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJP1VL7shiI


Swift Actors are an important contribution to the Actor Paradigm.

There is is an upcoming keynote address on the Actor Paradigm at the Linux 30th Anniversary Conference. See

https://reactivesummit2021.sched.com


Both ASIO and Sender/Receiver are not a suitable foundation for concurrency in C++.


As dueling co-routine proposals neither ASIO nor Sender/Receiver are a suitable foundation for C++ semantics.


Async co-routines are not a suitable foundation for C++ semantics.


The Actors Abstraction is a much simpler and more powerful for

formalizing the semantics of C++. See the following:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=3603021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJP1VL7shiI


Slowing of progress in Science and Technology results from

1. Slowing of scientific processes

    Article is correct that high-quality science is still       
    being performed. Because of increasing noise caused by 
    enormous size, ground-breaking work is increasingly 
    ignored
2. Slowing of transfer of science to technology

    In fields like Computer Science, a huge gap has opened 
    between fundamental work and the short-term development 
    horizons of companies.
3. Slowing of development of technology

    Fundamental development can require Apollo-scale projects.
    For example, 
       * resilience against cyberattacks based on the Actors 
         Abstraction and proving systems properties by
         Event Induction
       * Intelligent Systems using electronic glasses and
         Active Ontologies


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