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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by Cyph0n on Saturday January 21, 2017 @01:37PM (#13451377)
That's not what I'm talking about at all.

My issue is that the original commenter listed "resistance" to bit errors as an advantage to using Elixir vs. other languages for web dev.

The question then becomes: who the hell needs bit flip resistance when building a web app?

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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by posterboy on Sunday January 22, 2017 @08:42AM (#13455141)
I'd say it's a metaphor for more likely bugs, the gammaray bitflip being the most meta of them all. What do you think ecc-ram is for?
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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by Cyph0n on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:35AM (#13463395)
Exactly. ECC takes care of 99.99% of cases, so I don't see what using Elixir has to do with any of this.
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