[borromakot]

Author: I'm literally explaining not to interpret the tag line at face value.

[tmcb]

Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. “Let it crash” is not something that should be thought of at the component level, it should be thought of at the system level. The fact that the application crashes “gracefully” or not is not what is really important. You should design the system in a crash-friendly way, and not to write the application and think: “oh, I believe it is OK to let it crash here”.

[borromakot]

Then I don't think you understand how the phrase is used in Elixir/Erlang. The phrase is about letting processes crash.

[Muromec]

Yeah, but it's internet forum and for opinion pieces people first read comments and then maybe read the article if it's interesting.

[tmcb]

I actually skimmed the article before posting. I have some exposure to Erlang, but not to Elixir. As I’ve already mentioned, I think the author’s covering of application behavior is OK, but there is more to the tagline than meets the eye.