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I can't refute your personal experience, but 10 years of Erlang work left me longing for more. It sounds as if perhaps Erlang was not used optimally, or, altern
by defined 7y ago
I can't refute your personal experience, but 10 years of Erlang work left me longing for more. It sounds as if perhaps Erlang was not used optimally, or, alternatively, best practices may not have been followed.
10 years ago the ecosystem was horrendous, and is much better now. Granted, the build experience could be better but I didn't find it that bad.
I find that people's experiences are relative to what they are accustomed to. Early years for me included compiling and linking C in Windows (segmented) and that was truly horrible!
- ihuk 7y agoIt's funny how "you're holding it wrong" is the go to response whenever somebody criticizes Erlang. Why is that?
- lostcolony 7y agoReplace "Erlang" with any other language and the statement still holds true. If you want the obvious explanation, it's because we all have different experiences, and no one tool will be the biggest win for all teams across all domains.
- defined 7y agoProbably because they really are holding it wrong?
- enraged_camel 7y agoI mean, what you said about if statements (which should be very very rare in Erlang) kind of betrays it: you most likely _are_ holding it wrong.