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by CmonDev 4577 days ago
"Erlang, Go, Scala, and Clojure are all good fits and represent the current state of the art." - why is the choice so limited? It seems to be quite JVM-focused as well, I would consider F#/Nemerle as well. Erlang was invented in 1986 by the way - so a safe bet rather than "state of the art".
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danpalmer 4577 days ago
F# and Nemerle are both based on the CLR, and unfortunately the performance of Mono is pretty bad, and not really suitable yet for high performance use-cases like this.

Also I'd Erlang is state of the art, even though it is so old (Haskell too), but I wouldn't call it an entirely safe bet because it requires quite a different style of programming and experience, so might not work well for certain developers.

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CmonDev 4577 days ago
Isn't Erlang just a (semi-)functional language with Actor Model baked in? I might be wrong but it seems that you just need any dev familiar with message queues and functional style.
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