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message passing is shared mutable state and wow, who could have seen that coming. shocking revelation, truly. https://causality.blog/essays/message-passing-is-shared-mutable-state/

Causality

Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State — Causality

The failure of message passing to eliminate concurrency bugs wasn't surprising, it was predicted. Edward Lee argued in 2006 that the shared-memory vs. message-passing debate was a false dichotomy. Go was a billion-dollar natural experiment. The results confirmed the prediction.

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