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ZeroMQ might not bring the complete power of Erlang to other programming languages but what it brings is, at least in my opinion, the most powerful and interest
by spahl 15y ago
ZeroMQ might not bring the complete power of Erlang to other programming languages but what it brings is, at least in my opinion, the most powerful and interesting part!
- plainOldText 15y agowhich is?
- malkia 15y agotopics on ycombinator?
- pjscott 15y agoMessage-passing concurrency that works locally or over a network, with some fault-recovery stuff baked in. At least, that's the intersection of Erlang's coolness and ZeroMQ's coolness. Really, though, to me that's not the greatest part of Erlang. The great part of Erlang is more that the VM supports lightweight threading, so you can create a vast number of threads and program by message passing, and bugs can be met with micro-reboots by supervisors.
- kbutler 15y agoThe parent is suggesting that easy communication between processes is "the most powerful and interesting part" of Erlang, but I think not. Erlang facilitates reliable, highly concurrent systems using interprocess communication, zeromq just enables the interprocess communication part.
- piotrSikora 15y agoYou never used Erlang/OTP, did you? ;) Message passing is just part of the language and it's definitely not the most interesting one. It becomes really powerful when you combine all the interesting things together (pattern matching, message passing, lightweight processes, supervisors, gen_*, ...).