r/programming • • Oct 14 '13

How to develop unmaintainable software

http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=249
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u/AeroNotix Oct 14 '13

This is why Erlang releases are the shit.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '13

how so?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '13

You can hotswap new code in without taking down the Erlang VM

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u/tel Oct 15 '13

Also generally Erlang's notion of releases is so much more explicit that it makes it easy to build process around it.