Why I Program in Go

Re:Why I Program in Go by DennisP on Sunday January 06, 2013 @01:31PM (#5017132)

Immutability has worked out really well for a lot of real-world systems built with Erlang.

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Re:Why I Program in Go by laureny on Sunday January 06, 2013 @05:03PM (#5017944)

The main (and close to only) user of Erlang was Ericsson, and here is what the Wikipedia has to say about it [1]:

"Shortly thereafter, Erlang was banned within Ericsson Radio Systems for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages. The ban caused Armstrong and others to leave Ericsson"

Not exactly a strong endorsement for Erlang.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)

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Re:Why I Program in Go by Evbn on Sunday January 06, 2013 @11:34PM (#5019364)

"The ban caused Armstrong and others to leave Ericsson.[6] The implementation was open sourced at the end of the year (1998).[3] The ban at Ericsson was eventually lifted, and Armstrong was re-hired by Ericsson in 2004.[6]"

It is really hard to imagine that you made that excerpt in good faith. Read the very next sentence in the article.

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