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Here’s my once a month comment that I should probably put on autopilot: “at least half of show HN posts are just reimplementations of what already exits in Erl
by cpursley 2y ago
Here’s my once a month comment that I should probably put on autopilot:
“at least half of show HN posts are just reimplementations of what already exits in Erlang/Elixir”.
- declan_roberts 2y agoThe actor model existed before Erlang, and Erlang doesn't have some kind of a monopoly on it. Akka is pretty good too. Same as every OOP isn't "something that exists already in Java"
- NathanFlurry 2y agoHaha, I’m with you there. I was considering calling that out in the post. I dearly love Erlang & co., but its learning curve is way too steep for most developers today. Our goal is to bring the benefits of Erlang/Akka/Orleans/etc. to more developers by: (a) supporting mainstream languages, and (b) lowering the technical and conceptual barriers to entry.
- cpursley 2y agoErlang has its quirks but Elixir at least is an order of magnitude easier to learn than Rust or Java.
- conradludgate 2y agoMeanwhile, I'm a rust developer who is struggling to learn elixir :D
- revskill 2y agoThe key here is Typescript.