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No, message passing doesn’t solve all the problem of parallelism, but it is one of the most powerful and useful tools to have in our toolkit when attacking these problems.

I hope it doesn’t dominate as OOP did in the 90s, as many other models such as actor and dataflow still have a lot of room for research and improvement.



Actors are based on message-passing as well. The paradigm favored by Go and Erlang is CSP, which is a pretty interesting idea that revolves around message-passing, but it doesn't have a monopoly on the practice.




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