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Nerves and hot code reloading got me into erlang after I watched a demo of patching code on a flying drone ~8 years ago. While I can't imagine hot reloading is
by edude03 2y ago
Nerves and hot code reloading got me into erlang after I watched a demo of patching code on a flying drone ~8 years ago.
While I can't imagine hot reloading is super practicle in production, it does highlight that erlang/beam/otp has great primitives for building reliable production systems.
- atonse 2y agoI have told so many people about that video over the years. It was one of the most amazing demonstrations of a programming language/ecosystem that I've ever seen. Yet I've never been able to find it again.
- opnitro 2y agoDo you have a link?
- trq01758 2y agoProbably not the same video, but the one on this topic on youtube is https://youtu.be/XQS9SECCp1I https://youtu.be/XQS9SECCp1I
- atonse 2y agoAh I thought that was the one. Now I understand why I couldn't find it. But the other one was during a talk. Same effect though.