Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches

Post by rkangel » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 10:31 AM UTC

lotyrin wrote: post #42

dhab wrote: post #39

My limited understanding of erlang/elixir is that it helps easily run actor model programs (fail-safe loosely defined as something with retries built-in) in a grid of long-running interconnected instances. With more and more focus on "serverless" development that I am being exposed to, I am curious to know if it is a good fit in this space. Say if you are constrained to use AWS serverless solutions - sqs, sns, dynamo…

The modern serverless paradigm is a way to give these more traditional computing runtimes/languages a lot of the features of Erlang/OTP. The downside to having all of these things in services on the network and outside of the runtime is latency. Imagine a runtime where everything is a message, everything goes into inboxes/queues but passing many of those messages is zero-copy, doesn't hit a network interface, and goi…

Post by ramchip » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 1:43 PM UTC

PopeDotNinja wrote: post #57

schpaencoder wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have macros in Elixir

Erlang has macros... http://www1.erlang.org/documentation/doc-4.8.2/doc/extension... ...but I think they work differently, or are more limited in scope.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 8:48 PM UTC

zem wrote: post #59

had to smile at the nod to adrian mole :)

Post by abcqewrth » Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 8:50 PM UTC

zem wrote: post #59

had to smile at the nod to adrian mole :)

Post by elbrujohalcon » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 12:18 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #53

josevalim wrote: post #40

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Elixir is more than syntax. Or rather, it is not even about the syntax :) This is a common question, so I even gave a talk about it some time ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5fMQcSy3y8 Elixir features meta-programming, structs and protocols, first-class documentation, strong focus on the tooling, some abstractions that make concurrency more accessible (such as tasks and streams), etc. However, Erlang and Elixir…

> They have the same data-types (with the same names and even the same syntax for almost all of them), As someone who mostly has just used Erlang, but has looked at Elixir some, I think one of the things I appreciate about Elixir is some of the Erlang warts that you've managed to work around, like having strings be Erlang binaries.