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Re:What is Erlang-Style Concurrency?
on Thursday February 07, 2008 @06:14PM (#111548)
Why wait for Python to reinvent itself? Just use Erlang and call Python libraries from Erlang if you really need them.
Re:Nice try, kid ...
on Wednesday January 30, 2008 @02:16PM (#106990)
Why not use Erlang and make it concurrent? :)
[spawn(fun() -> print("'I will not throw paper airplanes in class.'") end) || N <- lists:seq(1, 500)]
Re:StandoutJobs Launches. New platform for employers to attract top ta...
on Monday January 28, 2008 @02:44PM (#105726)
Great idea, great product.
Re:YC Startup Loopt Launches Location Applications Platform
on Thursday January 17, 2008 @05:06PM (#99997)
How does Loopt make money?
Re:One (programming) language for the rest of your life. Which one?
on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @07:46PM (#96613)
Erlang.
Re:Founders at Work: AppJet Takes Off
on Friday December 14, 2007 @06:47PM (#89741)
With SimpleDB (combined with EC2), building and scaling a service like AppJet just got a whole lot easier.
Re:Ask YC: Will there really always be room for more successful web st...
on Thursday December 13, 2007 @08:54PM (#89386)
What do you mean by "everything is turning into software"?
Also, while I agree that there's effectively infinite demand for new software (I can't imagine a day where all software companies and open source projects stop writing code), it doesn't mean that there's infinite room for new software businessnes -- especially the ones that start with a few hackers in an apartment cranking out a webapp in 2-4 months.
Re:"Who cares if Erlang starts slowly? It was designed to start once ...
on Wednesday December 12, 2007 @03:02PM (#88833)
Erlang ended up outperforming Ruby by many orders of magnitude in the same benchmark. Read the final article.
Re:"Who cares if Erlang starts slowly? It was designed to start once ...
on Tuesday December 11, 2007 @06:34PM (#88451)
Erlang was designed for building scalable, highly available distributed systems. If it's not good at building other things, e.g. first person shooters, that's not a meaningful disadvantage.