Oh, the horrors in having to learn a new programming language!
Except I am not. What would be Erlang really without OTP? Would you really want to implement all the building blocks in every new project? You are dismissing the importance behind stdlib while defending a language that…
> I'd understand if you said that basic substitution macros are nowhere close to actual AST macros, but Erlang has far more than that. Fair point. > Those are sugar. It's not like you can't define your own behaviors in…
> You can do reasonable metaprogramming in Erlang with the syntax_tools and stdlib interfaces. You can also do concurrency in Ruby. It is not the same as doing concurrency in Erlang though. The same way doing…
Oh, the horrors in having to learn a new programming language!
Except I am not. What would be Erlang really without OTP? Would you really want to implement all the building blocks in every new project? You are dismissing the importance behind stdlib while defending a language that…
> I'd understand if you said that basic substitution macros are nowhere close to actual AST macros, but Erlang has far more than that. Fair point. > Those are sugar. It's not like you can't define your own behaviors in…
> You can do reasonable metaprogramming in Erlang with the syntax_tools and stdlib interfaces. You can also do concurrency in Ruby. It is not the same as doing concurrency in Erlang though. The same way doing…