Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available

Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by davidw on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:51PM (#11685358)

I miss working with Erlang. I still think Ruby is better for getting something out quickly for many businesses that charge for a product(†), but Erlang was very interesting, challenging and generally a good community.

† If you charge for a product, you don't generally have to worry quite so much about scaling because you make a lot more money per user than some site that's all about ads and trying to keep the cost per user really low because the ads don't actually pay all that much.

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Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by gjkood on Thursday May 12, 2016 @01:58PM (#11685410)

Have you evaluated Elixir yet? Targets Erlang BEAM + OTP backend + Ruby like syntax. Best of both worlds, maybe? The Phoenix framework sweetens the deal too. I would also add Ecto ORM for popular RDBMS backends.

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Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by davidw on Thursday May 12, 2016 @02:49PM (#11685792)

I haven't had a serious look at it yet, but the Ruby/Rails ecosystem is really big. I'd bet Elixir isn't quite there yet. I like what I've seen so far, though.

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Re:Erlang R19 Release Candidate Available by karmajunkie on Thursday May 12, 2016 @04:35PM (#11686576)

I'd argue that in the vast majority of cases, anything 'missing' from the ecosystem is probably one of those gems that probably shouldn't be a project dependency anyway. That doesn't mean it won't filter its way over to the Elixir ecosystem at some point, but I don't think you'll find any of the major pieces missing.

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