• gpopides@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For Erlang I would say that the hard part is not the language itself (maybe a bit because it is influenced by prolog) but because of the mental model. Using concurrency and parallelism as core concepts of the language and understanding that you don’t need a lot of the external tools you would with the more mainstream languages is what’s hard imo.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I bet, I’ve always wanted to learn Erlang. People always speak to highly of it. The guy that made Sonic Pi was saying he wished he would’ve used it because Sonic Pi involves a lot of music loops playing at the same time and stopping individual ones and modifying them etc and because so many of those concepts are baked in he said it would’ve been nice