haddadell

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   by haddadell 11y ago

   Oh, the horrors in having to learn a new programming language!
2. 2.▲
   by haddadell 11y ago

   Except I am not. What would be Erlang really without OTP? Would you really want to implement all the building blocks in every new project? You are dismissing the importance behind stdlib while defending a language that is known specially be
3. 3.▲
   by haddadell 11y ago

   > I'd understand if you said that basic substitution macros are nowhere close to actual AST macros, but Erlang has far more than that. Fair point. > Those are sugar. It's not like you can't define your own behaviors in
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   by haddadell 11y ago

   > You can do reasonable metaprogramming in Erlang with the syntax_tools and stdlib interfaces. You can also do concurrency in Ruby. It is not the same as doing concurrency in Erlang though. The same way doing metaprogramming with syntax