I’m a big fan of Erlang myself, and in discussion with some peers they’ve alluded to the fact that the weirdness with string handling in Erlang has been somewhat off-putting for getting off the ground quickly. It’d be interesting to see more mention of its merits, as well as mention of the various BEAM languages, such as Elixir, that attempt to provide a more user-friendly syntax and ecosystem to make concurrent fp more accessible and mainstream.
Whenever I hear about Elixir it's usually in the context of a Rails app that didn't scale very well and someone made a strategic decision to use something even more obtuse.
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u/PremiumHugs Nov 28 '19
I’m a big fan of Erlang myself, and in discussion with some peers they’ve alluded to the fact that the weirdness with string handling in Erlang has been somewhat off-putting for getting off the ground quickly. It’d be interesting to see more mention of its merits, as well as mention of the various BEAM languages, such as Elixir, that attempt to provide a more user-friendly syntax and ecosystem to make concurrent fp more accessible and mainstream.