Re:Why and How I Switched from Python to Erlang
by rdtsc on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:40PM
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> Rarely anyone "needs to scale."
Agree, and I say it as an Erlang full-time dev. Chances are you don't need 9 9s reliability and super scalability.
I've heard and seen cases of companies rewriting stuff unnecessarily due to some incompetent people following latest fads. "Oh I read Python has the GIL so we need to switch to Go. Saw on HN everyone is switching" -- cue years wasted in rewriting and destabilizing a solid usable code base.
Agree, and I say it as an Erlang full-time dev. Chances are you don't need 9 9s reliability and super scalability.
I've heard and seen cases of companies rewriting stuff unnecessarily due to some incompetent people following latest fads. "Oh I read Python has the GIL so we need to switch to Go. Saw on HN everyone is switching" -- cue years wasted in rewriting and destabilizing a solid usable code base.