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> Node.js is the most powerful way to do server-side scripting not really. By the way, have a look at http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/06/elixir-in-times
by anonyfox 11y ago
> Node.js is the most powerful way to do server-side scripting
not really.
By the way, have a look at http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/06/elixir-in-times-of-microservices/ http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2015/06/elixir-in-times-of-... . Elixir/Erlang excels at concurrency and allows you to build large-scale distributed backends easily, with many additional benefits (fault tolerance, ...).By the way, "Microservices" and "Actors" for parallelism and concurrency aren't really discussed in the erlang/elixir world, since this is the natural way to code. The "cutting edge" to do massive backends is actually decades old, battle-proven and guaranteed to work, this is what erlang actually was designed for.
Many many Big systems today are using the Erlang VM for their critical backends, like Call of Duty or Whatsapp.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoPlease do not give undue preference to Elixir over Erlang. Other than that, I agree.
- anonyfox 11y agoI used both, Elixir/Erlang and Erlang/Elixir. And Both variants exactly one time. The only small preference is that I used the Elixir/Erlang variant as the first one, but hey, one could argue that coming from Go/Node, elixir may be easier to get started. :)
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoWhat are "Elixir/Erlang" and "Erlang/Elixir" supposed to mean? I understand adding the slash for OTP, as those are shared traits. Perhaps their use of BEAM, though that's secondary.
- anonyfox 11y agoCommon language shortcut for "OR", at least for my understanding it seems-