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Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
- RickJWagner 8y agoI hope this does well. I read Joe Armstrong's Erlang book and really liked the language. I hope it gains more traction so there is more opportunity to use it.
- busterarm 8y agoI mean, have you used Facebook chat, Pinterest, Discord, RabbitMQ, CouchDB, SimpleDB, Riak, T-Mobile SMS, or GRPS/3G phone service? If so, you're using Erlang probably quite a lot!
- bryanrasmussen 8y agoI don't think that matches what most people mean by using a language, if you use those applications you are using applications that use the language but you do not use the language yourself. Although in CouchDB you can write plugins in Erlang so maybe.
- fooker 8y agoFacebook chat doesn't use Erlang anymore, afaik.
- uxcolumbo 8y agoWhatsApp was built using Erlang I believe. WhatsApp is now owned by Facebook. Are you saying they changed the tech stack for WhatsApp?
- yetihehe 8y agoFacebook chat did use erlang (Ejabberd to be precise), but they migrated to something other. WhatsApp uses erlang and is even a member (logo in partners section). So, Facebook uses erlang, but not directly as Facebook, but they changed tech stack away from erlang.
- gdsdfe 8y agoSounds like elixir adoption is pumping back more life into the Erlang ecosystem ... Good news anyways.
- sergiotapia 8y agoWho founded this? Who is behind this organization? Is it just a random person? Before people downmod this, I'm an Elixir developer - just curious who wrote it. It doesn't _seem_ official. Edit: I see Jose there, it's legit! https://twitter.com/sheharyarn/status/1101306957531570176 https://twitter.com/sheharyarn/status/1101306957531570176
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- jordsta 8y agoThere's a really nice icon used as the favicon on their website, shame it's seemingly not used anywhere on the web page itself.
- ilovecaching 8y agoErlang is very weird, and very complicated. The BEAM languages themselves are very small, but the BEAM is an all in one ecosystem that sends beginners on a trip. In Erlang, when a new person asks what library to use for X or Y, the answer is usually it’s already in the virtual machine, but it probably has some sort of quirk that makes you want to bash your head in the wall at scale. I’m a recovering Erlanger now. Erlang taught me a lot of valuable skills and expanded my horizons, but it’s a journey and anyone who goes down that hole is liable to never come back up.
- lliamander 8y agoJust curious, what language(s) do you use now?
- ilovecaching 8y agoWe use Kubernetes to give us the same level of reliability and scalability as Erlang, which was Erlangs primary value add. You can then pick a language, or any number of languages in a more service oriented environment.
- lliamander 8y agoInteresting. I've noticed the similarity between Kubernetes and Erlang as well, but what it brought to mind was Virding's Rule: "Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang." And actually Kubernetes is pretty cool, but between the complexity of configuring it, and the fact that it only operates at the level of heavy-weight OS processes, makes me wonder whether it really is much of an advantage. To be fair, while I have used distributed Erlang, I haven't used at the scale that my current employer uses K8s, so I probably don't have an accurate comparison. (An aside: There are some people from the Erlang community who dismiss the notion of Go as a competitor of Erlang, on account of the many things Go lacks compared to Erlang. Your comment made me realize that the real comparison is not between Erlang and Go, but between Erlang and Go + Docker/K8s)
- Laymer 8y ago️️️️️
- yetihehe 8y agoHave anyone read bylaws section? > Section 4.8. Fellows. To be eligible for membership as a Fellow, a member must be nominated by a Fellow of the corporation [...] Upon election, a Fellow shall remain a Fellow for the remainder of such person’s natural life, subject to any limiting provisions of this document. Fellowship does not continue during any extension of life by non-natural means, such as zombification or vampirism.
- unvs 8y agoBetter safe than sorry!
- whatshisface 8y agoWould non-natural include medical interventions, or is it clearly meant to mean "supernatural?" What if someone says they were saved by a faith healer? It is only a matter of time before these claims are tested in the courts.
- openloop 8y agoConsider donating please.