Elixir vs Go

interesting podcast

I seem to remember hearing it several different places. The most recent that I found was from Joe Armstrong towards the end of this post though:

http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html

Based on Ericsson market share and the knowledge of their stack, plus the fact that some other provider use Erlang, a quick review of the market say that Ericsson has around 30 to 40% of the market of phone routers, plus another 5 to 10% from other providers that use erlang.

Emphatically no. Go is a simple language, and metaprogramming is complex. You can generate go code from a build script, but that’s about it.

While I agree with you personally, I believe that this is very much a matter of opinion.

But your post does make me wonder about something else: Does Go have a way to do metaprogramming?

That was a very interesting article, thank you.

Erlang was developed to power phone systems (OTP stands for Open Telephony Protocol) and currently powers about half of them on the planet.

Is there a source for the “about half of them”?

Okay, edit’s submitted and hopefully will be tweaked first thing tomorrow because it’s on the front page of HN right now.

Based on your review I asked them to change prescheduling to preemptive scheduling, hash to map (I have spent too much time in perl that it’s a reflex at this point) and an update to the code sample to fix the %{} on the pattern and the puts(other) part.

Most of the rest I left just based on sheer brevity sake. Unlimited-ish on the mailbox. I did mention elsewhere that the process heap is reclaimed independently while Go use’s a system wide GC. For the “functions inside modules” part I was really talking about defining functions.

On the typing subject, I linked to an Elixir Conf presentation on Dialyzer to further explain that part. I should probably have mentioned Dialyzer by name but it’s one of those tools that has no drawback to using it, gets used in generally every project and I didn’t want to confuse the reader with compiler + tool they’ve never heard of and won’t understand without further explanation.

Will definitely submit edits this evening. Thank you for the editorial review.

True, but that is not how I see most people use them, I think once have I seen a Task put in a Supervisor tree. That’s fine in the doc then.

I liked article very much

I have question: Can we run Go program from Elixir?

About clustering you mostly put Go application into container and orchestration service will take of it. Go very well fits into containers ecosystems. You can use with go http://www.grpc.io/

You could add sections:

####Tooling:

https://github.com/uber/go-torch

###usage

• Docker
• https://kubernetes.io/
• https://prometheus.io/
• system tools

Nice projects:

Also worth mention
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3154624/application-development/google-boosts-python-by-turning-it-into-go.html