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Re:Seven years of Go by ramchip on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:25PM (#12923386)
Erlang is actually compiled, and binaries above a certain size are reference-counted rather than copied between processes. It still makes various compromises like using bignums and doing preemptive scheduling which make it slower in general.
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Re:Seven years of Go by Skinney on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:28PM (#12925113)
It's compiled to erlang bytecode, yes, but not to machine code. You do have the option of doing that, but I do believe you miss out on live updates? Not sure.

Erlang is great though, especially Elixir, but for some use cases Go is better.

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