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I wouldn't be too sure of that. Each language's ecosystem fosters certain ways of approaching and solving problems. For example, Erlang/OTP brings a lot to the

• brightball 10y ago
  That's pretty much why Couchbase was created if I recall. He wanted to substitute the parts that could be done faster in C and the benchmarks have proved out well if I recall.
• markpapadakis 10y ago
  I understand it is about tradeoffs, and that the benefits and limitations of every language(in terms of syntax and semantics, and its associated runtime/VM -- if any) definitely define to a large extent the final product's characteristics. I am only saying that Mongo is not unreliable because C++ was selected; it's unreliable because of architectural choices and lack of care which may or may not have been intentional.
  • tormeh 10y ago
    Crudely put, my point was that the people who freely choose C, C++ and Javascript (and PHP etc.) are the kind of people who don't care much for quality. I understand if there are availability or historic (or even sometimes performance) reasons why someone chose a bad language, but if not I'm a bit prejudiced towards them. Erlang, in contrast to the aforementioned languages, is a language for people who plan to do things properly.