Erlang is a hip functional language, developed by Joe Armstrong of Ericsson in the 1980s that explicitly facilitates concurrent programming by enabling distinct parallel processes (as opposed to ...

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“With Erlang you could build a messaging app with many connected users and not worry about how they communicate,” says Chad DePue, CTO of Whisper, an app for anonymous posts that has opted to use the ...

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RIP @ joeerl, thank you for inspiring it is great sadness that I share news of Joe Armstrong's passing away earlier today. Whilst he may no longer be with us, his work has laid the foundation which ...