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Re:Why Erlang Matters by MichaelGG on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:25AM (#11452896)
It just seems that all the effort going into Erlang would be better spent on making the OTP stuff as a library for a popular, cross-language platform. Like the JVM (or maybe .NET.)
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Re:Why Erlang Matters by querulous on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:09AM (#11453059)
sure. we can start when the jvm can do preemptive scheduling of processes

erlang isn't great because of a single feature or library, it's great because it's designed from the ground up for one very particular role. you can't just port the otp api to go or the jvm. you need the whole foundation

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