I still remember trying to sell people on Erlang back at an old job and it went something like “think of it as concurrent functional lisp” and they were like “Lisp’s syntax is terrible” and I was like “then good news because this is Prolog syntax” and that wasn’t better.
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@rk Lots of people seem to like Elixir now though, for some value of “lots.”
@tim_lavoie @rk yep — I'm sure "then good news because this is Ruby syntax" is an easier sell than Prolog or Lisp.
@hisham_hm @rk Yeah, though I think I’ll lean towards Gleam whenever I wander back to BEAM tinkering.