What can I only do in Erlang?
Erlang looks interesting. However, the only problem I have with starting in Erlang is that on the great computer language shootout, it shows that Erlang is about 10x slower than C++ on most examples. And about 3x slower than Go [1] I know that the problems on this website are not specifically "concurrent" problems, but still, even a distributed web-server must do some non-concurrent stuff at times :) Are my concerns correct/justified?<p>[1] <a href="http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=hipe&lang2=gpp&data=u32q" rel="nofollow">http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?t...</a><p>Edit: even Haskell seems to be about 7x faster than Erlang (according to [1]). Suddenly, Haskell looks like a good candidate for writing a distributed server :) Can somebody comment on this?