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> I know Erlang is "the thing" right now I don't think Erlang is "the thing" right now. The "hot" languages for concurrent programming are Go and Node.js, for

by kudu 13y ago

> I know Erlang is "the thing" right now I don't think Erlang is "the thing" right now. The "hot" languages for concurrent programming are Go and Node.js, for better or for worse.

timClicks 13y ago
Those environments don't provide the supervision hierarchy which is being discussed in this thread. In Erlang, every actor you create has a supervisor, which will restart the actor (the behaviour is tunable) when it crashes.
gaius 13y ago
"Hot" is fashion, not engineering.