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Garrett Smith - Why The Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang

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Garrett Smith presents survey data and reflections on why Erlang remains a niche technology despite its technical strengths.

Erlang is ideally suited building scalable, fault tolerant systems with minimal investment. It can be used for any conceivable application - not just telecom. It has a multi-decade track record of success. So why does it remain a niche technology? To answer this question, Garrett turned to science. He conducted a detailed survey across a wide spectrum of programmers, architects, and managers to gather data on this question. In this talk, Garrett will present his findings and reflect on what they could mean for Erlang and its community. Erlang adoption is important. It makes your job easier when Erlang is supported by your company and customers. It's easier to grow teams when there are more Erlang programmers. The language itself will improve as it is applied across more domains. If you're interested in this topic - and want data rather than personal opinions - join Garrett in this important discussion. Talk objectives: - To present data to better understand how Erlang is used and, more importantly, how and why Erlang is not used. Target audience: - Anyone interested in supporting and promoting Erlang adoption, either within their company or within the broader programming community.

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u/DisregardForAwkwardin r/haskell • Recommends

Garrett Smith - Why The Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang link to this video This was a great talk by Garret Smith about Erlang and its community. You could probably replace most of this talk with Haskell and it wouldn't be far off the mark. Has anyone done a talk like this for the Haskell community? Maybe took data from the recent FPComplete survey and published word clouds?

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Why The Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang 00:51:55 by **Garrett Smith** (2014)

u/Jack9in r/elixir • Mentions

On “Elixir cons? Where to start?”

Also, noting some of the responses as demonstrative proof, fanboys are some of the only feedback you will get when encountering issues. There's this rush to try to trivialize or re-frame problems as "not-really-a-problem", looking to troll over a multitude of issues. Even Armstrong is guilty of this, poo-pooing the importance of syntax although... every sample by anyone anywhere results in the same issues being brought to the forefront. The overly-defensive-hipsters is who you will hear from most, who are a vocal minority found among niche and functional language communities like Haskell, Scala, and clearly Elixir. I think it hobbles language adoption, but that's what seems to happen for m…