Discussion on: Understanding the basics of Elixir’s concurrency model

Great article Ilija! As someone who has no prior experience in Elixir (just started learning it) nor concurrent programming, I can say that this article was quite helpful to me. I just noticed one minor issue; I think you forgot to put the default clause in example which just loops infinitely.

defmodule Store do
    def start do
        spawn(__MODULE__, :loop, [%{}])
    end

    def loop(state) do
        receive do
            _ ->
                loop(state)
        end
    end
end