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Let's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt
A panel with Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong and Carl Hewitt, hosted by Francesco Cesarini, on the history and future of concurrency. The three creators of CSP, Erlang and the actor model discuss their differing approaches.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it for getting the inventors of major concurrency models together, disagreements included.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Erlang Solutions
- Topic
- concurrency models
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Watch the guy who came up with Erlang, the Actor model and CSP discuss it: [VIDEO] One of my favorite videos on youtube.
coolKid721 on Hacker News · 2025-04
In Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)[VIDEO] This recent panel (Armstrong, Hewitt and Hoare) discussion on concurrency was the first time I got to know about him and it gave me a lot of food for thought.
apoorvgarg on Hacker News · 2019-04
In Joe Armstrong has diedI was introduced to him pretty late in the game, in this interview where he and Joe Armstrong and Carl Hewitt talked concurrency! It was interesting hearing them discuss their different thoughts and approaches [VIDEO]
lokelow on Hacker News · 2026-03
In Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away
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