Is Erlang the future of programming?

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>>55837674
No

Java is.

>>55837703
.0005 poos deposited in your loo account, Pajeet

>>55837703
Really man? Why you trying to start shit? Stop baiting.

>>55837739
>>55837762
Deny it if it makes you feel better. That won't change the fact that Java is currently the most popular programming language out there.

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

This is the future. If that rustles your buttons then do something about it vs plugging your ears.

>>55837974
People were saying that same shit 7 years ago. Java was fucking awful then and it's awful now but things -are- possible in it and the JVM makes it sort of portable so it has a shitty justification for CS degrees to teach it and it's easy as fuck to be a brain dead collection of objects implementer and member-function auto-complete tapper in your hand-hold IDE thereby learning OO.
So there it came and here it stays. Just like shitty pop music: plays on every radio validly well, everyone can appreciate it.

It is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ

What does Erlang have going for it that would make it a contender for such a title?

looks like someone just fucking dropped their alphabet

>>55838034
I'm not the one you have to convince. At any rate, it's better to have a few languages under your belt vs just one.

>>55837674
yes unreadable clusterfuck is obviously the fucking future

>>55838247
python babby detected

>>55838034
so it was the future, and it still is
good post

>>55838271
>python
I hate that piece of shit

if your language of choice doesn't read like pretty much like english, then it's complete shit and will never attain significant status

>>55838419
So why not program in English?

>>55838271
Phtn, _, bad:{too}

>>55837674

Hello, Mike.

>>55837674
No, but I do love the actor model

>>55837674
>slow
>garbage collected
>VM
>only recently got proper parallelism
>esoteric syntax
Gno.

Rust is the future.

>>55838981
Rust will be forgotten in a year

>>55837674
>unreadable code
>no mutable variables
>no real strings
I have no respect for a language that pretends threads are a new and innovative feature when that's been a core feature of C for half a century.

>>55838419
>if your language of choice doesn't read like pretty much like english, then it's complete shit and will never attain significant status
I have your solution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Language

>>55837674
Golang

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>>55837674

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>>55840597
>>55837674

I can't really think of any situations where Erlang would legitimately be the best choice. Maybe if there was actually a decent Erlang virtual machine that could actually manage decent performance, but there's not.

I guess it's academically interesting, at least.

>>55840670
Actually, is there ANY real company that uses it outside academia?

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>>55840039
Thinks Erlang processes are threads.

They're not OS-level processes anon, but they are processes within the VM, not threads. They do not share memory or the other sorts of resources that threads typically share. They are also typically much smaller than either OS processes or even OS threads.

>>55837703
WTF? Java's been in decline for at least 5 years, maybe 10. And good riddance.

>>55837674
I don't like any language where I can't tell 90% of what's going on at first glance

and it's not just lack of familiarity either, Lisp, Python and Haskell are all much more readable than that

so unless you have some actual real world advantages to using Erlang, it's just going to be another dead language on the pile

>>55841385
Any company that uses CouchDB, or Riak, or RabbitMQ. There's some intrusion detection software by Alert Logic that uses it heavily. Just off the top of my head...

>>55841385
A bunch, including whatsapp.

>>55838419
Then how do you account for the fact that SQL is a complete clusterfuck?

>>55841514
You have to be clinically retarded to believe this.

>>55837703
Java is going to be the COBOL of the future.
There's billions and billions of lines of Java in production today. I would say the vast majority of it is >10 years old.
Very few companies are producing NEW Java applications; they are just hiring Java developers to maintain their current infrastructure.

A small handful of companies are using Scala for their new applications because it integrates directly into their existing Java infrastructure, but, from what I've seen, most are moving to C# / .NET.

>>55842701
You're forgetting Android apps.

>>55837674
Oh god. I threw up a little in my mouth reading that ugly ass code. If that's the future I'll an hero right fucking now

>>55840039
>threads are a core feature of c
you clearly know nothing about c or erlang you retarded fuck