Simulating Conway's Game of Life with 100.000 Erlang Processes

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I decided to play around with OTP recently. It is the core of the Elixir language, but I rarely use everything it has to offer. So, I decided on coding Conway's Game of Life and made every cell its own GenServer . That means that every cell has its own Erlang process . But why? you might ask. Well, because ... why not?! 😄 It took my three attempts to build a correctly running Game of Life since…

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