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I can assure you erlang is not a 'niche telecom language's, as I have used it, in prod, in so many ways that have nothing to do with telecoms. One mini-project

I can assure you erlang is not a 'niche telecom language's, as I have used it, in prod, in so many ways that have nothing to do with telecoms. One mini-project I'm planning on working on for fun is to use it for HDL simulations, because its message passing concurrency is a nice way of cleanly dealing with eventing voltage edge transition logic. > But nobody proposes to write f.e a game or a Gui app in Erlang. Yet square enix uses elixir for game orchestration

JohnHaugeland 6y ago
> I can assure you erlang is not a 'niche telecom language's, as I have used it, in prod, in so many ways that have nothing to do with telecoms. You are completely incorrect. More than 95% of this language's use is by either Cisco or Ericsson, specifically for telecomms, the domain that the language was implemented for, and for which more than half of its standard library exists. That you used something once doesn't mean that you changed what it is for or who uses it in general. . > Yet square enix uses elixir for game orchestration I'm not sure why you italicized this. There is nothing called "game orchestration," and whenever you rephrase this with actual technical sounding terms, it's going to not sound impressive at all. What did you try to say here? Does Square Enix use RabbitMQ or something? You know that queues are a dime a dozen, and that Kafka, from a whole different programming language, is a common and acceptable drop in replacement, right? Nobody writes games or GUI apps in Erlang, and even if you can pull a random individual instance out of your ass, you haven't proven anything. Civilization 4 uses Lua for scripting. So what? Lua is in no sense a game programming language. Karel uses COBOL to teach robotics control. COBOL is not a robotics control language. There's a jackass out there who used the CSS3 forced checkbox toggle to implement Conway's Life, to make the biggest pain in the ass proof I've ever seen that CSS is technically turing complete. That doesn't make CSS a simulation language. Learn, please, that when you try to dust off single examples like they carry weight, you just make yourself look like a narrow, no context asshole.

JohnHaugeland 6y ago

> I can assure you erlang is not a 'niche telecom language's, as I have used it, in prod, in so many ways that have nothing to do with telecoms. You are completely incorrect. More than 95% of this language's use is by either Cisco or Ericsson, specifically for telecomms, the domain that the language was implemented for, and for which more than half of its standard library exists. That you used something once doesn't mean that you changed what it is for or who uses it in general. . > Yet square enix uses elixir for game orchestration I'm not sure why you italicized this. There is nothing called "game orchestration," and whenever you rephrase this with actual technical sounding terms, it's going to not sound impressive at all. What did you try to say here? Does Square Enix use RabbitMQ or something? You know that queues are a dime a dozen, and that Kafka, from a whole different programming language, is a common and acceptable drop in replacement, right? Nobody writes games or GUI apps in Erlang, and even if you can pull a random individual instance out of your ass, you haven't proven anything. Civilization 4 uses Lua for scripting. So what? Lua is in no sense a game programming language. Karel uses COBOL to teach robotics control. COBOL is not a robotics control language. There's a jackass out there who used the CSS3 forced checkbox toggle to implement Conway's Life, to make the biggest pain in the ass proof I've ever seen that CSS is technically turing complete. That doesn't make CSS a simulation language. Learn, please, that when you try to dust off single examples like they carry weight, you just make yourself look like a narrow, no context asshole.