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Re:Building Polyglot (Scala/Erlang) Systems With Scalang by jdefarge on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @06:05PM (#3045451)
Their claim is: Erlang is good for building scalable distributed systems. Scala has actors too, but Erlang is more than actors (a lot more!). It's a language created to build distributed systems and highly scalable servers.

On the other hand, Scala is good for data crunching and mutable/immutable data processing. And you'd have a hard time dealing with mutable data on Erlang. As they are building a highly scalable data analytics system, it makes a lot of sense to couple the two languages. But I guess Akka is good enough to the other 98% of the use cases you may ever find. ;)

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Re:Building Polyglot (Scala/Erlang) Systems With Scalang by jdefarge on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @10:43PM (#3046221)
update: An older Cliff Moon's talk about polyglot systems (Erlang and Scala) is available at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Building-Polyglot-Systems...

Disclaimer: in spite of thinking that Akka is a very cool framework, I think it can quickly become something like Spring, that is, a humongous framework that tries to solve everybody's problems.

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