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So you are trying to build Erlang without Erlang and OTP. Nice try :) You are maybe 5% there. How about the rest? Error handling, handling network issues, laten

by haspok 3y ago

So you are trying to build Erlang without Erlang and OTP. Nice try :) You are maybe 5% there. How about the rest? Error handling, handling network issues, latency, partitions, deployments, scaling etc... I would also argue that because of the async calls (NodeJS is single-threaded, right?) you can easily run into weird and unexpected issues where two sequential service calls return out of order (which is impossible if they are just method calls, but very likely if they are sent over the network). How do you handle these cases? Do you just block on each call over the network and hope for the best?

Cthulhu_ 3y ago
That was my thought too, this has been done many times before; I'd like projects like this to show their homework and prove they've tried e.g. erlang, scala, etc for the same thing, the pros and cons, the dealbreakers (and there won't be many dealbreakers), and why building a new tool is worth the effort.