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Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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Is Rust ready for scientific computing? I understand that given you are listing Rust alongside Solidity, your interest might be in cryptocurrencies, but I still thought this might be worth to ask. I'm very experienced in C++98, less so in C++11 and successors as I spent most of my time on other languages this decade (OCaml, Scala and R). C++11 is much more modern and appealing, so I'm wondering whether I should updat…

> Is Rust ready for scientific computing? Did Rust ever get integer generics?

The RFC for basics was accepted, but it's taking some implementation work that will take a bit.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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Elixir + Erlang

I see it becoming super popular and being mentioned very often. Is it really that great or all just hype?

You get really nice lang with very friendly community that will run on Erlang VM. So i'd say there is not enough hype :)

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I see it becoming super popular and being mentioned very often. Is it really that great or all just hype?

You get really nice lang with very friendly community that will run on Erlang VM. So i'd say there is not enough hype :)

Is it a language and framework for web mainly? Couldn’t tell from their homepage.

Re: Ask HN: What programming language you will learn in 2018?

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You get really nice lang with very friendly community that will run on Erlang VM. So i'd say there is not enough hype :)

Is it a language and framework for web mainly? Couldn’t tell from their homepage.

It's general purpose but well suited for web, soft real time services, distributed data processing, control plain etc. Erlang VM has unique featureset that no other platform really can match so if you need to build HA fault tolerant apps/services it's pretty good match. Coming from a different language one of the nicest things is preemptive scheduler so you don't have to worry about blocking event loop or process consuming all the CPU etc.
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