ihuk

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1. 31.▲
   by ihuk 7y ago

   Exactly my point. It scales about as well as any other language so why not use a language that's nicer to work with?
2. 32.▲
   by ihuk 7y ago

   Agreed. Couple of clarifications/observations. (1) there are situations like this: if DeductCreditInRatingGroup -> log("deducting credit..."); end; unfortunately you cannot write it this way. You hav
3. 33.▲
   by ihuk 7y ago

   No; as I understand it Elixir's only advantage is, arguably, better syntax. I don't mind Erlang's syntax that much. We were handling, in peek hours, over 100k requests per second spread over 3 servers. Funny you should mentio
4. 34.▲
   by ihuk 7y ago

   We developed Online Charging System in Erlang that served couple million subscribers for close to three years. I found the whole experience fairly terrible. Erlang is nice enough language and I don't mind the syntax but it's also
5. 35.▲
   by ihuk 8y ago

   I will not comment on (1) and (2) but (3) is wrong. I don't think that's even a 737 MAX on the picture. 737 was originally designed to be low to the ground to make it easier for ground crew to "bulk" load i.e. just throw
6. 36.▲
   by ihuk 11y ago

   If you have HP-48/49 you can get an HP-41 emulator from http://www.hrastprogrammer.com/emulators.htm . You can do synthetic programming on it.
7. 37.▲
   by ihuk 11y ago

   So being barely able to write C is now Hacker News-worthy?