The rise of fault-tolerant, distributed systems has led to greater programming complexity. Both Erlang and Elixir offer unique benefits for developing always-available and highly concurrent systems.

The hardware we rely on is changing rapidly as ever-faster chips are replaced by ever-increasing numbers of cores. As a result, concurrency and parallelism, niche features today, will soon be a basic ...

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In the first half of his introduction to actor concurrency, Alex Miller discussed the limitations of shared-state concurrency and explained how the actor model is expressed in Erlang. While Erlang is ...

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Thanks to distributed computing as well as web- and API-enabled services, demand has increased for versatile programming languages. Elixir functional programming offers an option for developers who ...

Erlang is one of those early languages which were based on the functional programming paradigm which was developed back in somewhere 1986 internally within Ericsson for proprietary use. The immediate ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Erlang, a programming language originally created in 1987 by Ericsson in its Computer Science Laboratory isn't exactly what anyone would call 'new', let alone the next big thing. The ...

Online bookie Bet365 has released code into the GitHub open-source library to encourage enterprise developers to use the Erlang functional programming language. The company has used Erlang since 2012 ...