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Re:Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released by davidw on Thursday September 21, 2023 @10:50AM (#37598483)
I've been using Erlang for something like 20 years, and Elixir has some genuine improvements over it, like using "binaries" for strings instead of the linked list/array things.
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Re:Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released by jacquesm on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:31AM (#37599164)
Yes, strings are a real pain point. And I absolutely believe that if Erlang were to be created from scratch today it would be much closer to Elixir than to the Erlang that is there with all of the historical baggage. But what surprises me is how well it is geared to the problems of the modern web, almost no other platform seems to be so tailor made for web scale event and request processing.
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Re:Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released by davidw on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:46AM (#37599412)
Out of curiosity, what have you built that really took advantage of what BEAM does well?
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Re:Erlang/OTP 26.1 Released by jacquesm on Thursday September 21, 2023 @01:12PM (#37600714)
A message switch.
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