Why Erlang matters
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Why Erlang matters
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#2On a related note, has anyone tried Elixir[1], which is a Ruby-like language that runs on the Erlang VM. If so, what project was that? how was your experience?
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#3Erlang's been fine for showing us what's good and what's bad. But most of all, Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a "friendlier" language when the time comes.
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#4Erlang's been fine for showing us what's good and what's bad. But most of all, Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a "friendlier" language when the time comes.
What do you mean by "Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a 'friendlier' language when the time comes"? Is there something I don't know about porting code from Erlang to other languages? (Not being snarky, genuinely curious.)
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#5On a related note, has anyone tried Elixir[1], which is a Ruby-like language that runs on the Erlang VM. If so, what project was that? how was your experience? [1] http://elixir-lang.org/
Inaka does a lot of Erlang. We really like Elixir and we're excited about it. It's still early but it gives you the runtime environment of Erlang with the syntax of Ruby. It has a few very active, passionate folks behind it which will cause it to continue to grow.
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#6People are always asking what is a good HN article, I'd say this is, great links to research that backs up many of the assertions.
"Erlang matters today because it demonstrates how these semantics can be elegantly packaged in one language, execution model and virtual machine." I think yes, in a theoretical sense this is absolutely true. The question is why is it not a language in widespread practical use?
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#7People are always asking what is a good HN article, I'd say this is, great links to research that backs up many of the assertions. "Erlang matters today because it demonstrates how these semantics can be elegantly packaged in one language, execution model and virtual machine." I think yes, in a theoretical sense this is absolutely true. The question is why is it not a language in widespread practical use?
Here's something I wrote about Erlang a while back, and why I don't think it'll ever go mainstream:
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#8People are always asking what is a good HN article, I'd say this is, great links to research that backs up many of the assertions. "Erlang matters today because it demonstrates how these semantics can be elegantly packaged in one language, execution model and virtual machine." I think yes, in a theoretical sense this is absolutely true. The question is why is it not a language in widespread practical use?
One of the huge hurdles for me personally was Erlang's heritage of Prolog syntax. I actually gave up once, and only cleared it second time around. Now I can see certain elegance and succinctness in the syntax.
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#9Erlang's been fine for showing us what's good and what's bad. But most of all, Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a "friendlier" language when the time comes.
What do you mean by "Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a 'friendlier' language when the time comes"? Is there something I don't know about porting code from Erlang to other languages? (Not being snarky, genuinely curious.)
Keep the idea of lightweight processes, crash at will, message passing, etc. and move these techniques into other languages so we don't have the awkward syntax.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean by "Erlang allows us to take the good parts and move them to a 'friendlier' language when the time comes"? Is there something I don't know about porting code from Erlang to other languages? (Not being snarky, genuinely curious.)
Keep the idea of lightweight processes, crash at will, message passing, etc. and move these techniques into other languages so we don't have the awkward syntax.
Aaaargh :(
Why, why syntax does have to matter? I thought it matters too, at first, but after sixth or so language I noticed the feeling of importance of syntax vanishing. Now I find good support in my editor much more important than syntax.
(Edit: and "you don't need editor support if you have good syntax" doesn't seem true to me either)