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you could say that Erlang isn't good at doing something it wasn't specifically designed for, which isn't a great feature for a language To be fair, slowness of
by pius 19y ago
you could say that Erlang isn't good at doing something it wasn't specifically designed for, which isn't a great feature for a language
To be fair, slowness of startup time would be a criticism of the stock Erlang runtime, rather than of the language itself. As projects like Squeak, Rubinius, and the official Java VM have shown, this sort of speed issue can improve independently of the language semantics.
- davidw 19y agoIn the real world though, the current Erlang runtime is all we've got, so it's fair to talk about Erlang's startup time being slow. The runtime has a lot of really good features, too - it's solid, pretty fast, and is very well tested.