Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
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Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
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Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#2Kudos to Francesco and the guys at Erlang Solutions for their outstanding work in the open source high concurrency field!
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#3Kudos to Francesco and the guys at Erlang Solutions for their outstanding work in the open source high concurrency field!
Thanks, but it is not only us at ESL. Thank Joe, Mike, Robert and Jane, the OTP team and Ericsson first and foremost, and the community as a whole. It has been an amazing journey, looking forward to the next 20 years :-)
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#4I didn't hear about Erlang as much as I did since Elixir came out and showed me the power of the VM and its ecosystem. As a ruby developer it's easy to pick up Elixir and I'm learning so much more about functional programming and systems than I did ever before.
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#5What an amazing language. I am working on a Elixir project, with a lot of Erlang peaces used directly. Integration is flawless and beautiful to observe. I do have many languages in my toolbox but only few of them were truly exciting for me, Haskell six or so years ago and Elixir/Erlang/OTP this year.
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#6I didn't hear about Erlang as much as I did since Elixir came out and showed me the power of the VM and its ecosystem. As a ruby developer it's easy to pick up Elixir and I'm learning so much more about functional programming and systems than I did ever before.
The Elixir core oddly was my first taste of an Erlang project. I'm amazed at how the ecosystem and language has expanded since 2011.
Jose Valim is a very personable person and thriving code ecosystems are built around individuals like that.
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#7Full time Elixir dev here. This was a very neat walk down memory lane. Thanks for sharing! Since Elixir is so new, and I wasn't that aware of Erlang prior to it, it's sometimes easy to forget just how long Erlang has been around!
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#8I used Erlang before Elixir and it was awesome, albeit with a syntax that required getting used too. I've often looked at bridging the gap between Ruby and Erlang, and closely watched and tested solutions like Reia [0], Erlectricity [1] and Ernie [2].
I was delighted when Jose started getting involved in the space and released Elixir. Thanks Jose!
[1] https://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/05/erlectricity-erlan...
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#9I used Erlang before Elixir and it was awesome, albeit with a syntax that required getting used too. I've often looked at bridging the gap between Ruby and Erlang, and closely watched and tested solutions like Reia [0], Erlectricity [1] and Ernie [2]. I was delighted when Jose started getting involved in the space and released Elixir. Thanks Jose! [0] http://reia-lang.org [1] https://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2007/05…
Ernie was my first foray into Erlang (run many production elixir apps now). It's still humming along in one of our legacy services. Never had an issue or downtime event
Re: Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
#10I've been engineering software for almost 30 years and no languages have ever been more enjoyable for me to work with than Erlang and now Elixir. I'd like to thank the teams behind both languages for making my career interesting again.
Specifically, I love working with pattern matching, OTP, and the functional nature of both languages. Thanks Erlang (and Elixir) guys!