Is Erlang actually fast? Why not just stick with C?

1 08 2009

What’s the point of learning Erlang when I already know {your language here}? It will take a long time to learn the language and even longer to become good with it… I don’t want to learn a whole new library… Functional programming is hard… My text editor is super awesome at {your language here} and I don’t want to use new tools…

Would you like some cheese with that whine?stop-whining

I’m going to show you a few ways Erlang excels, with a special focus on concurrent applications. I’ll even include some benchmarks to prove it. So sit down, be quiet, and give Erlang a chance!

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