Dr. Erlang Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crashing

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Dr. Erlang Love or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Crashing

minidracula: Dec 22, 2007; boo woo boo

MononcQc posted:

words about Elixir

So Elixir is Reia 2.0 (but with different people?)

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minidracula: Dec 22, 2007; boo woo boo

MononcQc posted:

Elixir is nicer than Reia. Reia was an attempt to make an entirely new language with new semantics -- object-oriented with each object being its own process.

Compared to that, Elixir keeps its semantics closer to Erlang (not OO, and processes are used similarly as Erlang, not as Reia did it).

Fair enough. I was being too glib; it's nice to hear Elixir isn't trying to replace Erlang per se.

The object-as-process model is pretty much the actor model though; I wonder what might have come out of the Reia folks looking at something like E and still targeting a Ruby-ish syntax...

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