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what are the things it is good at?

• lmm 4y ago
  Presumably, concurrency and fault-tolerance?
• weatherlight 4y ago
  concurrency, general purpose computing, excellent developer ergonomics and tooling. Great community.
  • alberth 4y ago
    > general purpose computing As a huge Erlang fan, I’m not certain I’d say “general purpose computing” is a strength of it though.
    • anko 4y ago
      server side computing is probably my take - it does handle more than that, eg. nerves but server side computing is the big win.
    • weatherlight 4y ago
      Python and Ruby are general purpose computer programing languages. Is there anything they do extremely well that erlang/elixir, can't? From the following: https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html 1 What is Erlang 1.1 In a nutshell, what is Erlang? Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.
• julienmarie 4y ago
  Amazing for: - Web -> Phoenix ( https://www.phoenixframework.org/ https://www.phoenixframework.org/ ) - Parallel data processing (like scrapers, ETLs, etc...) -> GenStage / Flow / Broadway ( https://hexdocs.pm/gen_stage/GenStage.html https://hexdocs.pm/gen_stage/GenStage.html ) - IOT -> Nerves ( https://www.nerves-project.org/ https://www.nerves-project.org/ ) Soon: Mobile Apps -> Elixir Desktop ( https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop ) ML -> NX ( https://github.com/elixir-nx https://github.com/elixir-nx )
• insane_dreamer 4y ago
  another example of Erlang for concurrency -> MQTT server (i.e., https://github.com/emqx/emqtt https://github.com/emqx/emqtt)