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You're absolutely right: with Erlang you have to spend a great deal of effort planning for, implementing, and testing code that can work correctly across nodes

You're absolutely right: with Erlang you have to spend a great deal of effort planning for, implementing, and testing code that can work correctly across nodes with different versions of the code and/or versions of Erlang itself. I think the open question is whether strong, _static_ type system can handle it at all.

dnautics 6y ago
you actually don't. You just have to use pattern matching correctly.
- macintux 6y ago
  Well, yes, that's the primary tool, but from my now-fuzzy memories working on Riak at Basho, I recall there being subtle and not-so-subtle risks and complexities to manage.