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There are plenty of companies using erlang in production. The community is relatively small and almost everyone knows each other. Yes, you can find erlang jobs
by dvliman 9y ago
There are plenty of companies using erlang in production. The community is relatively small and almost everyone knows each other. Yes, you can find erlang jobs or elixir jobs - a lot of those these days (PM me if you are looking)
Besides, erlang definitely gives you new perspective in building large scale system; supervision tree (let it crash), the actor concept, message passing, preemptive vm, built-in distributed erlang nodes, the repl, hot code swapping - any much more
The power comes from the whole ecosystem. Concurrency is built from ground up on language & vm level.
- alistproducer2 9y agoThanks for this comment. you've given me several things to Google :)
- bello 9y ago> Besides, erlang definitely gives you new perspective in building large scale system; supervision tree (let it crash), the actor concept, message passing, preemptive vm, built-in distributed erlang nodes, the repl, hot code swapping - any much more Can't emphasize this enough. Programming in Erlang will enable you to build novel mental models, useful beyond Erlang/Elixir. Moreover, Erlang is a small language, and once you get past the unusual syntax, pretty easy to learn. I work on a large scale production system in Erlang on a day to day basis; feel free to email me if I can be helpful in any way.