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Who exactly claims Erlang is dead? The referenced article is SEO-infected garbage that also claims Haskell and Perl are dead.
by qsort 4y ago
Who exactly claims Erlang is dead? The referenced article is SEO-infected garbage that also claims Haskell and Perl are dead.
- okaleniuk 4y agoWell, it's 21 century, nothing dies anymore but people. But you have to admit that it's not booming the way it deserves. I wrote in Erlang a decade ago and I thought that in ten years, surely, it will eat the world. Erlang got too many things right. However, as people from other domains started employing its principles, Erlang's value diminished. E. g., if we now write supervisors in Python that run servers, event handlers and FSMs written in C++, and the system works fine, we don't really need Erlang.
- worthless-trash 4y agoThen you need 4 languages and each of them has slightly broken interactions. Hell is the code we write.
- Lio 4y agoIt's only a word but the very fact the article refers to Erlang as a "coding language" and not a "programming language" is enough to give it a cheap, amateurish feel from the start IMHO. I'd just ignore it as low quality click bait if I were you.
- rob74 4y agoThat sounded odd to me too, but not being a native speaker, I was asking myself "is that how they call a programming language nowadays if they want to sound cool?". Guess not...
- freedomben 4y agoIt may indicate that it was written by someone who is relatively young. The teenagers I know (including my own) all say "coding", never say "programming". I suspect the latter sounds "old" to them. Since the young tend to be amateurs, I whole heartedly agree that it sounds amateurish. It probably is, and we're probably getting old.
- topaz0 4y ago"coding", sure -- I say that all the time too. But "coding language" is something I have never heard.
- ivanhoe 4y agoErlang and Haskell were never really the mainstream so not much changed for them, but Perl was "the language" at one point in time. It was everywhere, and now it's basically in the same box as Cobol - people who use it are 99% maintaining some old script. Very few young people choose to learn it nowadays, and the development got super slow due to the lack of developers. Perl 7 sounded great on paper, but I doubt it will get released anytime soon. So if not dead yet, Perl is definitely dying a slow death...
- hestefisk 4y agouse Perl;
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