Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
I used to drink a lot of cool-aid from erlang. It is true, that they have got concurrency model right. They embraced actor model, messages between processies are copied over for a good reason, etc. However, I don&#x27;t think it is enough to call it a day.
Comparing to modern languages, erlang lacks <i>a lot</i>. Elixir is trying to fill those gaps, but how many layers of abstraction can you add to an ecosystem before it is unusable? With go and rust available, erlang&#x2F;elixir looks like a very good tool but for a very limited pool of use cases - routing&#x2F;filtering&#x2F;messaging.