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Erlang is intimidating? How? It's a braindead simple language.
by IsTom 14y ago
Erlang is intimidating? How? It's a braindead simple language.
- jimbokun 14y agoIt doesn't look like C!!!
- IsTom 14y agoC is can be intimidating, C++ often is. You have to gain much experience to be able to write good C++ code. With Erlang it's simple. It's supervisiors and gen_servers all the way down.
- luriel 14y agoC++ is not intimidating, it is terrifying. Erlang is nice, but has its own not-so-simple issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eBDWigORY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eBDWigORY Interestingly, many things in Go's design that might seem 'deficiencies' from the point of view of Erlang means most of those problems don't apply to Go at all.
- IsTom 14y agoThat's a good talk, I've encountered these problems in the wild. Erlang isn't a silver bullet obviously and you have to know it well if you want to write something big, but it's really easy to write small to medium applications. Shame their erld isn't FOSS.