What's special about Erlang and Elixir?
I'm intrigued by the claims about them but also don't entirely understand the marketing "Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications." OK, there are lots of languages that are either or both dynamic and functional, and they can all used to build scalable and maintainable transactions. "Elixir runs on the Erlang VM, known for creating low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems." Let's skip over "low-latency", because virtually all programming languages and VMs are "low-latency". "distributed" and "fault-tolerant" are what's most often touted as "special". I'm not sure what "distributed" means here? Any app in most languages can be coded to be "distributed" both on the scale of within a single machine and at the scale
Why it failed
I'm intrigued by the claims about them but also don't entirely understand the marketing "Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications." OK, there are lots of languages that are either or both dynamic and function
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- bedobi
- Ended
- 2023
- Source
- hackernews