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Call me a skeptic, but this project ditches Erlang's awesome VM and takes only the clunky language syntax and puts it on the JVM. I wonder how things like proc

by vladev 17y ago

Call me a skeptic, but this project ditches Erlang's awesome VM and takes only the clunky language syntax and puts it on the JVM. I wonder how things like process isolation will work out.

sriramk 17y ago
You beat me to it. My first reaction was "Wait - how is preserving Erlang's syntax but losing the VM a good thing?". I'd love projects going the other direction - a more modern syntax built on Erlang's rock-solid VM + OTP libraries.
- oconnor0 17y ago
  What are the names of some of those projects?
  - frig8 17y ago
    Reia http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language Lisp Flavored Erlang http://github.com/rvirding/lfe http://github.com/rvirding/lfe
bad_user 17y ago
I don't see a problem with process isolation ... you can control the bytecode generated from the compiler, and then you make the Java FFI really hard to please. Since Erlang uses light-weight processes, this is exactly what the Erlang VM is doing.
xtho 17y ago
I'm always skeptic if there is only one actively maintained implementation of a language in use. In this respect, this is per se a good thing.