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Erlang/OTP is great fit for building applications that support a huge amount of concurrent users, but the problem is that IMO Erlang is nowhere near as pleasant
by sjtgraham 11y ago
Erlang/OTP is great fit for building applications that support a huge amount of concurrent users, but the problem is that IMO Erlang is nowhere near as pleasant to work with as Ruby, Python, etc. So if you're building something with zero users and choosing Erlang because of the ROFLscale potential it's premature optimisation. Elixir is the difference. I am just as productive in it as anything else and I enjoy it much more. So what we have is the massive power and potential of Erlang/OTP with a productive, pleasant API and great developer tools (Mix, Hex, etc).