Programming languages for distributed system

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sivabudh picture sivabudh · Jul 24, 2010 · Viewed 13.1k times · Source

I've been doing socket programming for a while in C++, and kind of got tired of having to write the same code to handle for errors, serializing / deserializing data, etc.

Are there programming languages out there that have first-class support for distributed system?

Answer

Mark Rushakoff picture Mark Rushakoff · Jul 24, 2010

Erlang, as described by Wikipedia:

It was designed by Ericsson to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-real-time, non-stop applications.

You might also want to read the Distributed Erlang section of their manual.

However, note that Erlang is a functional language and will require a much different paradigm of thought as compared to C++.

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