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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Good point. Never thought of that...
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
knew it looked odd...
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Bollocks - in my defense I was on a train :(
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
The person who can't be bothered to find something they don't know exists. Seriously?
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Come on! I am writing LuvvieScript a compile-to-javascript dialect of Erlang. This is a list of compile-to-javascript languages: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang... Is any develo
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Yessum, it is indeedy...
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
It tells you that the primary route to finding out about Erlang for someone who knots nothing about it (ie Google it and have a nosey) its no bloody good.
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
I wrote the question and I agree that popularity isn't a good metric (on its own). But it is a valid metric, in the round. Making a language more popular has to start with people who don't use it though, so no apologies for being
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
He's doing this in good faith because I, the original poster, asked him too. This is the best answer on the page (for me).
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Pierre Fenoll has provided a link to an extensive list of links (and summarised them) about why it has not taken off: https://github.com/fenollp/kju/blob/master/criticisms.md
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
All your thoughts most gratefully received - the internal debate is pointless and fruitless.
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Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular?
202 points by gordonguthrie 13y ago|235 comments
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
And Erlang is great and building and managing a horizontally scalable architecture - about building repeatable work units and co-ordinating them. So how many engineers did you have? What were your ratios?
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
When the guy from Sequoia, who has the inside numbers on the top companies, says it is unheard of, its probably unheard of. The backend service is rather simple for 50 billion messages a day? hmmm not so much, I'm thinking.
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
From http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbe... 32. Even by the standards of the world’s best technology companies, WhatsApp runs lean. With only 32 engineers, one WhatsApp developer supports
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
The US sets the targets for UK cruise missiles. The French set the targets for French cruise missiles. The Frogs could bomb NY, the Brits, not so much...
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
What the hell ;) Support your local technical book writer!
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
I suppose I am being a bit of a blushing bride about the syntax as it isn't mine, just being good old-fashioned Erlang. The demo doesn't show much more than hello world, because that's all there is at the moment - the focus h
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
I am writing an OTP-ish dialect of Erlang that compiles to javascript http://luvv.ie Just bought that book on your recommendation - better be good or else ;-D
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
The UK 'independent' nuclear deterrent isn't. Unlike the French one, it uses US missiles whose targets and strike pattern is set if North Carolina.
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
I suspect what you will find is that API's are defined with records, one or more of whose fields is a map. You do kind of do that with Mnesia tables where you want to specify the indexable-keys up front, but need to have the flexibilit
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Cool, just slogging away, its is still early doors...
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
I am in the process of writing an OTP-ish dialect of Erlang that compiles to Javascript and has its own runtime environment ( http://luvv.ie/mission.html ) so maps is a more work for me, so I am a bit yay!/sigh!... The t
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Yeah, Erlang is proper shared nothing. With modern multicore phones I think low-number concurrency in Web Workers should be enough. My problem with using Clojure libraries is that I don't really know JS very well :( I really am all Erl
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
The concurrency issue is not mine to fix. Javascript provides native concurrency by Web Worker which (compared to Erlang processes is a very heavy-weight, no-shared code environment. LuvvieScript is just realising that (given those prior co
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
I don't agree. The mission is to be a dom-scripting language http://luvv.ie/mission.html I didn't just pluck 9 out of the air, it comes from thinking about how I would structure applications that I have written. T
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
No. The client and the server are such different environments. In the server you want 10s of 1,000s of processes, with long lifes (years, months) and hot code loading and supervision/restart. None of this is needed/available in th
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
If you fancy developing your own transpile-to-js language I have written up the actual process in some detail: http://luvv.ie/toolchain.html Erlang (via Erlang Core) is actually quite a sweet example. Erlang (which is small
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
Boy am I glad I added LuvvieScript (Erlang dialect) to it last week. Its sits a bit lonely, the last transpile-to-javascript language to come in. Robert Virding of Lisp-Flavoured-Erlang pointed out that once I get it working all the other c
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by gordonguthrie 13y ago
We had Robert Rees of the Guardian speak at http://mostlyfunctional.com at the http://turingfestival.com a couple of months ago. He told us that the Guardian is takings steps to ensure the paper can still come out if

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