On: Why I program in Erlang (2012)

[hankchinaski]

Last time I tried to learn Erlang I stopped immediately for 2 reasons:

- could not find a platform/runtime where to host it

- basic open source libraries are not available

It’s nice and all to be attracted to cool technology but we also have to be aware of everything else that goes with it: developer experience, oss libraries, community support, ease of use and so on

[hybridtupel → hankchinaski]

Have you checked out Elixir?

- Can be deployed to Heroku or Fly.io without much effort

- Well designed tools like mix

- There is a thriving community

- "basic open source libraries" highly depends on the context, but yes there are not as many as for more popular languages (yet)