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Fine. Then the UNIX platform is a great deal weaker than the Erlang platform on the supervision tree front, and if you'd like to fix it there, fine, but it's still not comparable as of this moment. Killing a Go OS process is not even remotely similar to killing an Erlang process, and restarting a Go OS process is not even remotely similar to restarting an Erlang process.

In fact, let me underline that... the UNIX platform is a GREAT deal weaker than the Erlang platform on this front. It has faint shadows of what Erlang supports, which are incredibly heavyweight, far less reliable, FAR less granular, and effectively can not be used the way Erlang's can be. It's an answer, sure, but it's not even in the same league in this particular way, so don't fool yourself otherwise.

Of course UNIX has other advantages, but, well, that's why I run Erlang on UNIX, so....



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