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I've always wondered why more crypto projects aren't using Erlang seeing as it's so good at distributed systems

by exdsq 5y ago

openfuture 5y ago
Amoveo is one, it's mostly interesting for other reasons though.
arthurcolle 5y ago
Yep, have wondered that myself
turbocon 5y ago
By all means not a erlang expert, just read an intro book on it and it mentioned that erlang was not a good heavy computation language, so maybe that's why?
- exdsq 5y ago
  Ah this makes sense, I haven't used Erlang so didn't know that. Thanks!
kuratkull 5y ago
Because a programming language providing great async/distributed capabilities is very different from a distributed system.
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waynesonfire 5y ago
what do you mean by "why more"? you can always have more. are there not enough for you at the moment?
- exdsq 5y ago
  I don't know of any, but even if there are a few, I'm unsure why it lost to Go/Rust/C++
lawn 5y ago
Erlang/Elixir is great for sure, but it's very slow at computations so if you're talking about more lower-level projects that will directly verify or do calculations on the blockchain, then that's a showstopper. (If you don't let something like Rust handle that, but then you might not get that much benefit compared to writing it all in Rust.)
darkr 5y ago
Erlang is great for non-blocking concurrency, but for CPU-bound tasks it’s not the fastest language out there.
weatherlight 5y ago
https://aeternity.com https://aeternity.com æternity blockchain is an Erlang-based scalable smart contract platform engineered by programming pioneers to address some of the most fundamental challenges native to earlier blockchains. By redesigning blockchain technology at the protocol level, the æternity developer community has enabled the core protocol to understand and integrate a rich set of functionalities out of the box.
keewee7 5y ago
Erlang and Elixir are not good at number crunching tasks like crypto mining.

I've always wondered why more crypto projects aren't using Erlang seeing as it's so good at distributed systems

by exdsq 5y ago

I've always wondered why more crypto projects aren't using Erlang seeing as it's so good at distributed systems

openfuture 5y ago

Amoveo is one, it's mostly interesting for other reasons though.

arthurcolle 5y ago

Yep, have wondered that myself

turbocon 5y ago

By all means not a erlang expert, just read an intro book on it and it mentioned that erlang was not a good heavy computation language, so maybe that's why?

exdsq 5y ago
Ah this makes sense, I haven't used Erlang so didn't know that. Thanks!

kuratkull 5y ago

Because a programming language providing great async/distributed capabilities is very different from a distributed system.

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waynesonfire 5y ago

what do you mean by "why more"? you can always have more. are there not enough for you at the moment?

exdsq 5y ago
I don't know of any, but even if there are a few, I'm unsure why it lost to Go/Rust/C++

lawn 5y ago

Erlang/Elixir is great for sure, but it's very slow at computations so if you're talking about more lower-level projects that will directly verify or do calculations on the blockchain, then that's a showstopper. (If you don't let something like Rust handle that, but then you might not get that much benefit compared to writing it all in Rust.)

darkr 5y ago

Erlang is great for non-blocking concurrency, but for CPU-bound tasks it’s not the fastest language out there.

weatherlight 5y ago

https://aeternity.com https://aeternity.com æternity blockchain is an Erlang-based scalable smart contract platform engineered by programming pioneers to address some of the most fundamental challenges native to earlier blockchains. By redesigning blockchain technology at the protocol level, the æternity developer community has enabled the core protocol to understand and integrate a rich set of functionalities out of the box.

keewee7 5y ago

Erlang and Elixir are not good at number crunching tasks like crypto mining.