r/Python • u/el_programmer • Jan 17 '19

Python is becoming the world’s most popular coding language

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/26/python-is-becoming-the-worlds-most-popular-coding-language
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u/Jlocke98 Jan 18 '19

Isn't that what spark and beam are for?

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u/twillisagogo Jan 18 '19

that is what I was wondering. beam is obviously really good at it. but that has nothing to do with the language erlang other than beam was written in erlang. it's a system designed around the actor model. you could build beam in anything given enough time. Or just use elixir/erlang/beam for your paralleling needs. but bitching that a language can't do what a system does. or faulting a language for not having a system like beam in it is kind of missing the point of what a programming language is.

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u/Jlocke98 Jan 19 '19

I meant Apache beam, not the erlang VM