Erlang Programming Language

Discussions revolve around recommending Erlang (and Elixir/OTP) as a solution for concurrency, fault-tolerance, and distributed systems in response to the article, including critiques, learning resources, and comparisons to other languages.

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tedunangst Apr 10, 2012 View on HN

The article I read mentioned Erlang.

aaomidi Jan 16, 2021 View on HN

You realize erlang isn't a silver bullet right?

arthurcolle May 22, 2015 View on HN

Erlang isn't really new...

liveoneggs Jun 17, 2016 View on HN

You sound like a great candidate for Erlang!

jeffreygoesto Nov 29, 2024 View on HN

How would Erlang/Elixir do in this?

TylerE Apr 5, 2023 View on HN

That's really more erlang's niche.

charlesjshort Apr 5, 2013 View on HN

Any thoughts of putting some Erlang in there?

Lordarminius Oct 6, 2016 View on HN

Great case you make there! I'm off to look into Erlang :)

signa11 May 19, 2014 View on HN

have you looked at 'erlang and otp in action' book ? might be useful...

rapsey Oct 29, 2021 View on HN

You are describing Erlang and it can not get simpler than that.