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There's at least one really solid payment switch written in Erlang made by VocaLink, and it was recently acquired by MasterCard after being deployed in many mar
by im_down_w_otp 10y ago
There's at least one really solid payment switch written in Erlang made by VocaLink, and it was recently acquired by MasterCard after being deployed in many marketplaces for in-country domestic processing and bank-to-bank switching.
Little over a year ago, at Erlang Factory SF, Visa was poking around looking to hire Erlang developers too, not sure what ultimately happened with that though.
- biot 10y agoUnsurprising; one of the key benefits of Erlang is its robust pattern matching [0]. When you're dealing with protocols, the ability to match specific cases and automatically assign matching variables without convoluted nested spaghetti logic is a huge benefit. [0] http://learnyousomeerlang.com/syntax-in-functions#pattern-matching http://learnyousomeerlang.com/syntax-in-functions#pattern-ma...
- qohen 10y agoLittle over a year ago, at Erlang Factory SF, Visa was poking around looking to hire Erlang developers too, not sure what ultimately happened with that though. The guy from Visa was at Erlang Factory again this year and, from what he told me, the project is chugging along.