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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? by coldtea on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:08AM (#7281641)
>You are wildly over-estimating how well known Erlang is, even in the dev community

Well, it's pretty well known in the competent dev community. Some guy doing CRUD apps for some enterprise might not know it, true.

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? by doktrin on Saturday February 22, 2014 @11:15AM (#7282474)
lol. This silly elitism needs to die.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? by coldtea on Saturday February 22, 2014 @01:10PM (#7282914)
Why, because all programming endeavours are equally hard or important, and all programmers have equal skills?
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? by doktrin on Saturday February 22, 2014 @01:34PM (#7282996)
In this make believe scenario, the world is divided neatly into opposing camps of "competent devs" and "enterprise CRUD devs". It's dismissive, cheap analysis at its best. It's a straw man whose only real purpose is to embolden us with a smug sense of superiority.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Erlang more popular? by coldtea on Saturday February 22, 2014 @10:54PM (#7284853)
It's also empirically correct.

I've worked for enterprise.

Also I didn't say it is divided "neatly". Why do people always assume that when you talk about a group of people being Y, all of them must be Y?

It's enough that the statistical majority of them be Y (e.g 90% of enterprise developers not really knowing about the wider world outside enterprise software practices). That there will be exceptions it's obvious -- there are exceptions everywhere.