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I have spent hours and hours banging my head against Erlang distributed system bugs in production. I am absolutely mystified why anyone thought just using a par
by peterwwillis 6y ago
I have spent hours and hours banging my head against Erlang distributed system bugs in production. I am absolutely mystified why anyone thought just using a particular programming language would prevent these scenarios. If it's Turing-complete, expect the unexpected.
- BoorishBears 6y agoThe idea isn't that Erlang is infallible in the design of distributed systems. The idea is it takes away enough foot-guns that if you're banging your head against systems written it in, you'd be banging your head even harder and more often if the same implementor had used another language