Is Haskell the Cure?

Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by pjscott on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @08:05PM (#3073572)

Akka looks pretty sweet, but it looks like you still have to worry about blocking code in external libraries. In Haskell (and Erlang, IIRC), blocking code is deferred to a background thread automatically so you don't have to be consciously on-guard for it. You also get proper pre-emptive multithreading, while Akka looks like a hybrid of an event loop and a thread pool.

Is this a substantial headache with Akka, in practice?

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Re:Is Haskell the Cure? by gtani on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @10:51AM (#3075868)

(late reply)

it's pretty hard to google akka deployments but:

http://www.quora.com/What-companies-are-using-Akka-commercia...

http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user/browse_thread/threa...

and in terms of memory overheads and how many erlang process-type things you can spin up:

http://akka.io/docs/akka/1.1/scala/tutorial-chat-server.html

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