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Seems like an oversight that nobody thought to get proficient with erlang. As someone who has started learning it, this seems like the obvious choice.
by erlangNewb 7y ago
Seems like an oversight that nobody thought to get proficient with erlang. As someone who has started learning it, this seems like the obvious choice.
- diminoten 7y agoFrom the company's perspective, you'd need at least 2 people doing that, preferably everybody. Bus factor of 1 isn't great, and when the rest of the team already knows Python, the benefits of switching to a language everyone knows is huge. You're also presupposing Python is inferior to Erlang, which I'm not really going to argue about here, but I think we can all agree that Python isn't so bad that the decision to continue to use Python substantially and negatively impacted the org's ability to succeed.
- macspoofing 7y ago>Seems like an oversight that nobody thought to get proficient with erlang. If it's a component that nobody owns, and nobody cares about, then I'm not very surprised. >As someone who has started learning it, this seems like the obvious choice. The other obvious choice is to rewrite it.