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cpursley • last Wednesday at 10:36 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I agree, and it feels like JS is just the wrong runtime for agents. Really languages that can model state in sane ways and have a good concurrency story like Elixir make much more sense.

And here’s a fun exercise: ask Claude via Cursor or Perplexity with R1 to create a basic agentic framework for you in your language of choice on top of Instructor.

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mikehostetler • last Thursday at 2:42 AM

> good concurrency story like Elixir make much more sense

Agree, that's why I've been building this: https://github.com/agentjido/jido

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CharlieDigital • last Thursday at 12:06 AM

    > Really languages that can model state in sane ways and have a good concurrency story like Elixir make much more sense.
Can you expand on this? Curious why JS state modelling falls short here and what's wrong with the concurrency model in JS for agents.
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