Experiences with the Erlang ecosystem
from blued_gear@fedia.io to programming@programming.dev on 30 Jun 12:32
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To the programmers who worked with Erlang and related languages (so targeting the Erlang VM): how was your experience?

I'm interested in the Erlang ecosystem but would like to know if its languages are hard or can be considered powerful modern languages (and possible easy, but not "Python easy", I want to write efficient software with statically typed syntax).
Also, how mature is the ecosystem? Are there good frameworks to write scalable webservices with? Did you have fun using them and the language or was it more a headache-inducing experience?

So all in all what did you experience, in which context did you; and would you recommend learning an Erlang related language?

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Kwdg@discuss.tchncs.de on 30 Jun 12:47 next collapse

I recently started using Gleam and really like it. My experience with web development specifically is rather low (I am working mostly in c++ and rust) but the Gleam experience has been great so far. From what I’ve read so far BEAM (the erlang vm) should be great for web services, Elixir also uses it and I think twitch is /was using that

ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Jun 13:31 next collapse

The only experience I have with it is using Elixir and using the pure-erl Purescript backend to generate Erlang. It felt really alien and didn’t quite satisfy my Haskell side. I ended up abandoning it.

scottmeme@sh.itjust.works on 30 Jun 14:12 collapse

I’ve been working with Elixir (and the BEAM) since 2018. The ecosystem was already getting fairly mature then, and has only experienced rapid growth and improvements over the years.

Currently working on a production system that does scale with a kubernetes horizontal pod auto scaler. There are quite a few people who don’t like containers in the community, but I see them as a net positive for things like HPAs.