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Exactly, Erlang is a highly concurrent distributed system out of the box but this does not mean too much for Rails developers, on the other side the syntax is k
by istvan__ 12y ago
Exactly, Erlang is a highly concurrent distributed system out of the box but this does not mean too much for Rails developers, on the other side the syntax is kind of hard to get used to. I think this is primarily why Elixir was created. I think if we see the usage or Erlang in the world it has enough momentum already and it proved itself with empowering startups like WhatsApp. On the top of that, the Erlang community is absolutely amazing. I guess I don't understand what the author means in terms of momentum. Is Erlang popular on Github? Certainly not. Should we use this to measure momentum? I don't think so.
- alxndr 11y agoJosé Valim has repeatedly said that he did not create Elixir to be a whitewash of Erlang's syntax. http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syntax/ http://devintorr.es/blog/2013/06/11/elixir-its-not-about-syn...
- MCRed 11y agoNo, but it is part of the reason for its popularity. I think it's silly that we have a generation of programmers who are unwilling to learn a language without a C or Ruby like syntax. But I must admit that I find Elixir easier to read and more comfortable than Erlang.