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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 -- i

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.