At one point I thought I hated programming because I was just so sick it… It turns out I don’t hate programming, I just hate programming in Java.

Russell Beattie

ㅋㅋㅋ.

The reason people are looking at Erlang is not because its beautiful syntax, great documentation, or up-to-date libraries. Trust me. It’s because the Erlang VM can run for long periods of time, scaling linearly across cores or processors filling the same niche that Java does right now on the server.

This is less ㅋㅋㅋish. First off, why should I trust Russ on this? Is he Joe Armstrong? Kenneth Lundin? Robert Virding? Or the hordes of contributors on the Erlang mailing list? Nope. He is welcome to his opinion about Erlang’s syntax, but as a recovering Java programmer, what can you expect? The documentation is great, and the community vibrant and knowledgeable. Erlang’s faults are more with the lack of things that’d make it a great all-purpose language, like string manipulations, graphic libraries, and good GUI tools.

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