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"throwing away" and "jumping on the bandwagon" are two sides of the same problem: lack of forethought. If you take the time to adopt a technology and understand the pros and cons t…

Will they be contributing back to FoundationDB(FDB)? I ask this because they had used FDB since 2014 to build the Snowflake metadata store, and they've supposedly advanced FDB in t…

Define "solution"

bluetomcat's statement is in the realm of Relativistic Epistemology. In general, epistemology is about the root of human knowledge, and why some statement of knowledge represents a…

"Sean: There was one issue and that was when somebody went to upgrade something and didn’t follow the upgrade instructions. But for the stuff that we built, that was processed at t…

From a PL design perspective, I'm interested in finding out what new ideas it introduces to an already crowded field? Rust is good example of a PL design that introduces new concep…

Yes From 2017, https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/why-we-used-pony-to-wr...

I tried getting into Rust, but found its ownership model to be a bit too cumbersome (for me, maybe not for you.) I'm playing with various PLs designed for safe concurrency, includi…

" - It’s type safe. Really type safe. There’s a mathematical proof and everything. - It’s memory safe. Ok, this comes with type safe, but it’s still interesting. There are no dangl…

Fair enough. Could you please describe other happy path scenarios? Is there an educational resource (blog post maybe?) that talks in depth about "happy path programming" in the gen…

So, both of you guys talk about API request handling. How about some computational task where coding only the happy path means accurate calculated results for 80% of the cases? I t…

That is seems to be more about the underlying infra (BEAM) than the language. I thought it was something specific to Elixir. I thought they meant it at the level of program logic, …

I'd like to invite you to the Other Side Of The Force, Grant. http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2017/08/07/what-if-elixir-were... It's much more pretty over there. I haven't looked at …

Great coincidence since I wanted to attract attention of HN crowd earlier today to another BEAM language: Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) "[LFE] is the oldest sibling of the many BEAM l…