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What are the advantages and disadvantages of the funtional language erlang?
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Despite Yaws, it cannot be used as a web-development tool right out of the
box (Unicode, indexed search anyone)
Despite C- and Java- bindings, Erlang cannot be used for desktop
applications, because, well, you'll have to implement _a lot_ of stuff from
ground up in Java or C/C++ just to make things communicate with Erlang
As a control box? Yes, definitely. As a ready-to go solution? Probably, not.
And there are both advantages and disadvantages to that, as there always
are, but I think, that if Erlang community could focus on the
disadvantages... this could be the BEST -language
box (Unicode, indexed search anyone)
Despite C- and Java- bindings, Erlang cannot be used for desktop
applications, because, well, you'll have to implement _a lot_ of stuff from
ground up in Java or C/C++ just to make things communicate with Erlang
As a control box? Yes, definitely. As a ready-to go solution? Probably, not.
And there are both advantages and disadvantages to that, as there always
are, but I think, that if Erlang community could focus on the
disadvantages... this could be the BEST -language
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If I were to write a chat server for billions of people, is there a better language to write in other than erlang?