Re:Comparing Elixir and Go
by brightball on Friday January 27, 2017 @12:17AM
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I grabbed it from the Erlang Wikipedia for what it's worth. The language creates reliability by isolating running parts in millions of small heaps that can independently fail and immediately restart. It's not automatic, but the way that the language is designed makes these types of numbers much more feasible.
>As Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, expressed in his keynote at OSCON in July 2008:
"If somebody came to me and wanted to pay me a lot of money to build a large scale message handling system that really had to be up all the time, could never afford to go down for years at a time, I would unhesitatingly choose Erlang to build it in."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
It also had this along the same lines though:
>As Tim Bray, director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, expressed in his keynote at OSCON in July 2008:
"If somebody came to me and wanted to pay me a lot of money to build a large scale message handling system that really had to be up all the time, could never afford to go down for years at a time, I would unhesitatingly choose Erlang to build it in."