To the programmers who worked with Erlang and related languages (so targeting the Erlang VM): how was your experience?
I’m interested in the Erlang ecosystem but would like to know if its languages are hard or can be considered powerful modern languages (and possible easy, but not “Python easy”, I want to write efficient software with statically typed syntax).
Also, how mature is the ecosystem? Are there good frameworks to write scalable webservices with? Did you have fun using them and the language or was it more a headache-inducing experience?
So all in all what did you experience, in which context did you; and would you recommend learning an Erlang related language?
How would you compare Elixir with Kotlin (or similar) in terms ease of use and efficiency?
Depends on who your asking, ive been having to use kotlin for the last month (more like Claude), and kotlin just seems to have a lot more boilerplate code.
And kotlin also uses the JVM which just guzzles ram. As for the elixir service with 300k LOC, it uses ~1gb of ram, but I have discord bots that use ~70mb