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I'm well aware of the technical merits of the decision and generally agree with it (I upvoted you because of the clear explanation, btw). What rubs me the wrong

by rlander 14y ago

I'm well aware of the technical merits of the decision and generally agree with it (I upvoted you because of the clear explanation, btw). What rubs me the wrong way are comments like (emphasis mine): "And they are not the feature WE need to make the language better" and "Looking over Elixir, I tend to agree with Tristan -- it seems to have all the syntactic sugar that creative, non-hardcore, easily frightened developers might like"[0] Which translate to: just go away, please. [0] http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-January/071872.html http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-January/07...

chrisduesing 14y ago
You seem to have forgotten to quote the next paragraph which says, "In seriousness, it looks like a nice language -- I wonder if it, or the Ruby, Python, JavaScript "front-end" toolsets, might be a better fit for extending Erlang applications to programmers who are looking for a kinder, gentler syntax?" Garret spends a fair amount of energy trying to make Erlang more accessible. http://e2project.org/erlang.html http://e2project.org/erlang.html http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/speakers/GarrettSmith http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/speakers/...