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The news broke on Twitter this morning that Joe Armstrong, the creator of the Erlang programming language and one of the most influential figures in distributed and concurrent systems, has passed away.

Joe's work and ideas have had a significant impact on my career. On top of his professional accomplishments, by all reports he was a genuinely kind person as well.

I don't usually get emotional about celebrity deaths, but I'm gonna make an exception here.

Goodbye Joe.

😔