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I have to say, I don't really think Erlang is suitable for front-end stuff. Its string handling is just not good enough for the most common web tasks. Also, th
by intranation 17y ago
I have to say, I don't really think Erlang is suitable for front-end stuff. Its string handling is just not good enough for the most common web tasks.
Also, this smells a lot like .Net's datatables etc., which go against modern front-end best practices.
- evgen 17y agoWhile Erlang is not the first choice one would make for heavy string processing, in most web apps you are doing far less string processing than people assume. For an Erlang solution you just keep the "string" as an Erlang binary and pass it around in this raw form. With the addition of unicode to the list of types that are available for processing with the Erlang binary datatype in the recent R13 release this option is becoming more interesting.