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

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Rapsey: Sep 29, 2005

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

Post this in your blog.

E: Pressed post too soon:

What projects do people use Erlang in? By that I mean, what happened that made you go "I need Erlang for this!"?

Does it run as a server? Erlang is probably the best choice. It is a language built for writing servers.

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Rapsey: Sep 29, 2005

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

Thanks for the replies.

I don't know why I was under the impression that Erlang couldn't do low latency stuff.

Glad to hear it does.

Goldman Sachs uses erlang in their high frequency trading platform.

# ¿ Aug 14, 2013 04:47

Rapsey: Sep 29, 2005

I use plain processes pretty often. Usually with spawn_monitor from a gen_server. Generally they are single task activities that would otherwise block the gen_server.

# ¿ Nov 15, 2013 18:34

Rapsey: Sep 29, 2005

Posting Principle posted:

Also I'm stealing lpgauth's L macro for proplists.

What is it?

# ¿ Dec 2, 2013 18:57

Rapsey: Sep 29, 2005

Very few full time Erlang programmers use an IDE. There is simply no real need for it. There was a discussion about this very topic on the mailing list not too long ago.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/erlang-programming/t3jbMyKPLdw

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