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And yet people are reinventing parts of OTP in other languages and through tooling and infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes). What does that tell you?
by DandyDev 3y ago
And yet people are reinventing parts of OTP in other languages and through tooling and infrastructure (e.g. Kubernetes). What does that tell you?
- cpursley 3y agoIt tells us that people aren’t aware of OTP.
- DandyDev 3y agoOr that people find OTP/Erlang/Elixir hard to use. OTP has either a usability issue or a marketing issue
- eyelidlessness 3y agoIt doesn’t even necessarily say that. People may reasonably evaluate OTP/Erlang/Elixir[/other BEAM languages] and find them appealing, but elect to use another stack because it appeals more for reasons beyond OTP/etc’s appeal. I made that choice once, but I wouldn’t hesitate to consider OTP/etc again the next time I’m working on a problem they solve well.
- DandyDev 3y agoThanks for proving the whole point of this thread (No snark meant). People are indeed recreating parts of OTP in other languages because there are all kinds of reasons to pick a different language than Erlang/Elixer and still want some of the advantages of those languages