Erlang on a JVM/CLR

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Published on 2009-04-20T23:02:14Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 10:51 UTC
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I've just started reading Joe Armstrongs book on Erlang and listened to his excellent talk on Software Engineering Radio.

Its an interesting language/system and one whose time seems to have come around with the advent of multi-core machines.

My question is: what is there to stop it being ported to the JVM or CLR? I realise that both virtual machines aren't setup to run the lightweight processes that Erlang calls for - but couldn't these be simulated by threads? Could we see a lightweight or cutdown version of Erlang on a non Erlang VM?

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