Why We Chose Erlang over Java, Scala, Go, C

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Colin Hemmings discusses when and why one should choose Erlang over other options, but also when not to choose it.

This presentation was recorded at QCon London 2017.

[rogerio-ramos]

I really missed the arguments against other languages. I am a programmer and Elixir enthusiast but even though I couldn’t find the selling points for Erlang in this case.
Lack of reasons and lots of personal points. Unfortunately it was a wast of time based on title but still some good points about Erlang ecosystem
Not fair in the end

[evans]

Project Manager to devs: hmmm....i want an omlette this morning
Devs: Sounds like a job for MICRO SERVICES !!
Project Manager: Hmm...i really want some bacon.
Devs: I gotchu bro ! Imma make a micro service for that.
thinks micro-services is just this silver bullet to everything....ugh

[osamaa.h.altameemi]

The guy murdered the language. I wonder if they are still in business.

[chriskerley]

Never answered the question. "Why we choose Erlnag"

[mikelward]

21:32 You can't get production visibility and type safety?

[sefirotsama]

very inspiring to focus the whole thing from the approax of business cases an actual need and speaking about the initial monolith previous choices

[inad]

Boring talk even for washing dishes... 17 minutes in and it hasn't started yet.

[cyberstud]

Coz you guys want to enter niche market and save your jobs from being replaced. There are fewer Erlang developers compared to Java developers.

[NdaJret]

Is anyone else annoyed that the presenter keeps using the word "uhm"

[cyberstud]

OOP is bad programming practice. Writing spaghetti code hanging around is better for job safety.

[AlexTrout]

Worst presentation I've seen in a long time. And such shallow, biased and incomplete arguments.

[MrGarkin]

As a reminder - Facebook dropped Erlang and replaced it with CPP.

[anonymousstranger]

Scala is better than Java, Go, C and Erlang/Elixir as a programming language because it has rich type system.