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Experiences with the Erlang ecosystem (fedia.io)
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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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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

The only real person I've ever really heard talk about Erlang was the developer of Sonic Pi. Sonic Pi is a live coding music program, so naturally it has a lot of parallel code. I think it was on the se-radio podcast where I heard it (at least pre pandemic if you need help finding the episode, haven't listened in years). Basically he said he wished he'd used it because it makes what he needed to do very easy, which is adding and removing live music loops and modifying them.