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outlog on April 15, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Erlang Taught Me About Distributed Systems

Virding's First Rule of Programming:

Any sufficiently complicated concurrent program in another language contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Erlang.

https://rvirding.blogspot.com/2008/01/virdings-first-rule-of...

(he is one of the creators of erlang / stars in Erlang the Movie)

TurboHaskal on April 16, 2018 [–]

That's funny, considering that the reason I'm doing concurrent programming in "another language" is due to Erlang's poor performance.

nickh9000 on April 16, 2018 | [–]

Erlang is not a panacea. It excels as a middle layer, one that orchestrates work. It's not a tool to perform intensive calculations.

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