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Erlang is not magic fairy-dust that suddenly makes you app scale. What makes Erlang different than most languages is that it does not get in your way when scal
by evgen 18y ago
Erlang is not magic fairy-dust that suddenly makes you app scale. What makes Erlang different than most languages is that it does not get in your way when scaling becomes necessary. There are fewer leaky abstractions and hidden "gotchas" that will end up making your life hell. The fact that it happens to come with battle-tested frameworks for handling a lot of the dreary details for code and data distribution along with strong fault-tolerance features are nice benefits to be able to draw upon.
- scott_s 18y agoThat all sounds excellent. I've never actually had the chance to use Erlang, but I do have experience with concurrent applications in general. I think concurrency will be the norm in the future, so I'm excited by things like Erlang, even if I've never had the chance to use them. I just want to make point out that a language like Erlang makes solving a hard problem easier, but it's not the solution itself.