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Re:Fancy a self-hosted programming language for the Rubinius VM by jamii on Friday April 22, 2011 @12:07PM (#2474478)
I'm pretty tired of languages that claim 'erlang-style' concurrency without any of the erlang features that actually make it useful (process isolation, link/monitor, supervisors etc).

EDIT: Personally, I would also add to the above list: algebraic data types, optional static typing with a (mostly) sane type system, no inheritance / minimal indirection, immutable by default, (reasonably) good introspection, support for live code replacement.

Re:Fancy a self-hosted programming language for the Rubinius VM by nathanwdavis on Friday April 22, 2011 @01:04PM (#2474655)
Yes, thank you for reminding me how awesome Erlang is!