> Is an infinite crash-loop considered success in Erlang?
Of course not, but usually that's not what happens, instead a process crashes because some condition was not considered, the corresponding request is aborted, and a supervisor restarts the process (or doesn't because the acceptor spawns a process per request / client).
Or a long-running worker got into an incorrect state and crashed, and a supervisor will restart it in a known good state (that's a pretty common thing to do in hardware, BEAM makes that idiomatic in software).
Of course not, but usually that's not what happens, instead a process crashes because some condition was not considered, the corresponding request is aborted, and a supervisor restarts the process (or doesn't because the acceptor spawns a process per request / client).
Or a long-running worker got into an incorrect state and crashed, and a supervisor will restart it in a known good state (that's a pretty common thing to do in hardware, BEAM makes that idiomatic in software).