Top "Erlang" questions

Erlang is a general-purpose, garbage-collected programming language and runtime environment, with built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

What kind of virtual machine is BEAM (the Erlang VM)?

From what I understand a virtual machine falls into two categories either "system virtual machine" or a "process virtual machine". …

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Why did you decide "against" using Erlang?

Have you actually "tried" (means programmed in, not just read an article on it) Erlang and decided against it for …

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Windows x64 RabbitMQ install error with Erlang environment var (ERLANG_HOME)

I'm ask/answering this question because it hung me up & it's likely someone else will have the same problem. …

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How do you do modulo or remainder in Erlang?

I'm brand new to Erlang. How do you do modulo (get the remainder of a division)? It's % in most C-like …

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Technically, why are processes in Erlang more efficient than OS threads?

Erlang's Characteristics From Erlang Programming (2009): Erlang concurrency is fast and scalable. Its processes are lightweight in that the Erlang virtual …

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Future investment: Erlang vs. Scala

since concurrent programming becomes constantly more important, I was wondering what you think about Erlang vs. Scala in that respect. …

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Extraction of elements of tuples

Given one list with one tuple: [{4,1,144}] How to extract the first element of the tuple inside the list: element(1,lists:…

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Node.js or Erlang

I really like these tools when it comes to the concurrency level it can handle. Erlang/OTP looks like much …

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Are there things Elixir can do that Erlang cannot, or vice versa?

This question is in the context of the Beam VM and the capabilities that it provides, not in the general …

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Erlang's 99.9999999% (nine nines) reliability

Erlang was reported to have been used in production systems for over 20 years with an uptime percentage of 99.9999999%. I did …

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