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by juyjf_3 696 days ago
Can we stop pretending Erlang does not exist?

Go is a next-gen trumpian language that rejects sum types, pattern matching, non-nil pointers, and for years, generics; it's unhinged.

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While I generally agree with your take that it's a regression in PL design, there's no need to be inflammatory. There's lots of good software written in it.

> pretending Erlang does not exist

For better or worse it doesn't to most programmers. The syntax is not nearly as approachable as GoLang. Luckily Elixir exists.