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How is this related to programming languages - I think these are platform issues and design choices. How does Erlang help there (curiously interested)?
by protomikron 8y ago
How is this related to programming languages - I think these are platform issues and design choices. How does Erlang help there (curiously interested)?
- wrong_variable 8y agoErlang's language syntax is kinda awful but that is besides the point. Issues I have raised are 100x harder to address then some syntax.
- pdimitar 8y agoYou should read on the fault tolerance guarantees of Erlang OTP. It's really hard to be summarized. Supervision trees, "let it crash and get safely restarted", super-mini-processes that have preemptive scheduling built-in, soft real-time... TL;DR: No, no other language or framework in the world has the primitives that Erlang and Elixir have. People on HN and Reddit really love acting non-impressed and claiming the pain points are easily solved in other languages. My 17 years of career say this is not true at all.