[jacquesm]

After long searching I've settled on python for hardware control, number crunching and ML stuff (it's really just wrappers around C libraries and GPU kernels) and Erlang for everything else. So far no regrets. I wasn't aware of that software, thank you for the pointer!

[jfoutz]

I've never used it seriously, but the bit pattern pattern constructs look really sweet. I don't write a lot of protocol code anymore. But I remember doing parsing badly on 10-100 bytes to figure out what a message meant. Websocket stuff would get a lot of help from that syntax.