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A TCP Chat in 100 Lines

Sockets, processes, and message passing — a tiny chat server is the perfect way to feel them work together.

After this: Build a concurrent TCP chat server from scratch with processes.


The BEAM makes network servers feel almost unfair. One process per connection, no callback spaghetti.

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