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Why you should give Erlang

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March 03, 2013
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Why you should give Erlang

Lightning talk from wroc_love.rb 2013

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March 03, 2013
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Transcript

  1. Why you should give Erlang a try

  2. why is it cool?

  3. •it was a commercial product why is it cool?

  4. •it was a commercial product •open sourced in 1998 why

    is it cool?

  5. •it was a commercial product •open sourced in 1998 •concurrent

    why is it cool?

  6. •it was a commercial product •open sourced in 1998 •concurrent

    •distributed why is it cool?

  7. •it was a commercial product •open sourced in 1998 •concurrent

    •distributed •batteries included why is it cool?

  8. •hot code reload why is it cool?

  9. •hot code reload •OTP behaviours why is it cool?

  10. •hot code reload •OTP behaviours •functional language why is it

    cool?

  11. who uses it?

  12. •Chef who uses it?

  13. •Chef •ejabberd who uses it?

  14. •Chef •ejabberd •RabbitMQ who uses it?

  15. •Chef •ejabberd •RabbitMQ •CouchDB who uses it?

  16. •Chef •ejabberd •RabbitMQ •CouchDB •and many more who uses it?

  17. give it a try

  18. give it a try brew install erlang

  19. give it a try brew install erlang "Learn You Some

    Erlang" book

  20. give it a try brew install erlang "Learn You Some

    Erlang" book O'Reilly's "Erlang Programming" book

  21. give it a try brew install erlang "Learn You Some

    Erlang" book O'Reilly's "Erlang Programming" book erlang.org/doc

  22. or try Elixir

  23. or try Elixir brew install elixir

  24. or try Elixir brew install elixir elixir-lang.org

  25. one more thing…

  26. one more thing… bit.ly/erlang-movie

  27. KTHXBYE Mateusz Lenik / @_mlen