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Nobody mentioned Erlang so far. My biggest disappointment with "Scientist" is that it basically provides service which Erlang code has for free - hot code relo
by thesz 11y ago
Nobody mentioned Erlang so far.
My biggest disappointment with "Scientist" is that it basically provides service which Erlang code has for free - hot code reloading. For decades now. Along with other cool features like great support for parallel execution, hierarchical monitoring and so on.
Article mentions some early user raves about this tool in context of "it allows me do refactoring!"
Of course it would help, but there are languages that either have all this cool stuff for decades (Erlang), or can allow you to do heavy refatoring without asking for help from "interesting" tools like this "Scientist" (Haskell).
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- Qwertious 11y ago"The greatest form of flattery is imitation." Huh, does that apply less if they've basically never heard of you when they imitate you? Not to imply that Erlang is unheard of, I'm just saying it's not as popular and orthodox as Python/Ruby/C/java/etc.
- thesz 11y agoThere is a variant of hot code reloading (dynamic binary program patching) for C. http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/apijournal.pdf http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hollings/papers/apijournal.pdf And there even older one (I cannot find because search in my blog (LJ) is broken).