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This is a pretty outdated take considering all of the experience you've referenced is 10+ years old now.
by stanmancan 3y ago
This is a pretty outdated take considering all of the experience you've referenced is 10+ years old now.
- Supermancho 3y agoI find this statement, unconvincing. Elixir and the improvements to the VM were the last big leaps. None of these things affected the issues that keep Erlang from being relevant. Erlang is some inexplicably sacred cow on HN, among the few other forums who still discuss it. Making sweeping changes is going to be required, to get the adoption that some are seeking...specifically the authors of these kinds of posts. Waiting another couple decades for the killer app to catapult it, will never happen.
- lvass 3y agoNah, this take would be as bad in 2009 as it is today. I mean, it's evidently clear they can't wrap their head around functional programming, which is absolutely fine, until you jump to generalizing conclusions like this.
- Supermancho 3y agoThis elitist attitude, is another mainstay of the Erlang community that hasn't helped in the slightest. What is the reason it's not popular again? My reasoning is not "a bad take", as much as it's my take from over 30 years programming. I would say it's my own twist on common understandings across the west coast of the US. You probably have your own, equally wrong reasoning. Would be great to hear them.