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Its already the biggest thing ever, but nobody knows it. 90% of the Internet nodes is controlled by erlang code [1] Edit: it's indeed controlled nodes and not
by danfritz 6y ago
Its already the biggest thing ever, but nobody knows it. 90% of the Internet nodes is controlled by erlang code [1]
Edit: it's indeed controlled nodes and not code
[1] https://thenewstack.io/why-erlang-joe-armstrongs-legacy-of-fault-tolerant-computing/ https://thenewstack.io/why-erlang-joe-armstrongs-legacy-of-f...
- WJW 6y agoIf you use "passes through" as a standard, surely C would be the biggest thing ever since Linux+BSD+Windows make up way more than 99% of operating systems and those are all written in C.
- danfritz 6y agoHa yes fair point! I mainly wanted to indicate that it's used more than people think. It's the backbone of telecom
- bobbyz 6y agoErlang: Cobol/Telecom: Banks/Internet: Money
- ori_b 6y agoC is definitely bigger than people assume.
- pjmlp 6y agoWindows has also a good part of C++ and we all know Microsoft's stance on keeping C compilers around.
- ramchip 6y agoIt’s not exactly what the quote says - 90% of the traffic goes through nodes _controlled by Erlang_. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17218190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17218190
- danfritz 6y agoThanks for pointing that out, I've updated my original statement