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If you have some heavy computation parts that you could implement in some lower-level language like C, then you might want to check out Erlang again. Erlang is
by mzl 16y ago
If you have some heavy computation parts that you could implement in some lower-level language like C, then you might want to check out Erlang again.
Erlang is really good at making the coordination layer efficient (the message passing and threads are fast) as well as usually rather clean. The original use-case for Erlang, telecomunication switches, are written in a mix of Erlang and C. The low level stuff (handling call-data and similar things) is handled by C, and the high-level structure of the program is in Erlang.
- fnl 16y agoFollowed the advice I got here from you and others and am now studying the language. And, so far, I must say, Erlang rocks. Naturally it will be a few weeks before I can write something real and make more of an educated decision, but it really looks very nice so far - so many solutions to problems I have. I especially like the "selective message passing" bits and the ways you can operate on bitstreams already.