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Re:Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released by depr on Thursday September 21, 2023 @07:43AM (#37596194)
If there are no bad tools, why use Erlang at all instead of for example, Java, C, C++ or Python which all have a larger ecosystem and user base?
Re:Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released by jacquesm on Thursday September 21, 2023 @07:48AM (#37596248)
Because tool quality is only one dimension to a choice. There are no bad tools: but there are tools that are more suitable to a particular purpose. For instance because of interop, existing infrastructure, team experience, access to specialists, natural fit between tool and problem, availability of existing libraries and so on.