Comments on: Erlang vs. Scala

By: Trabajo

Trabajo — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:30:10 +0000

Java indeed has a lot of libraries.

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By: Szymon Jeż

Szymon Jeż — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:05:24 +0000

Very good comparison. In my impression Erlang seems to be the better choice for building concurrent systems. At least for now.

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By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:00:38 +0000

If you want to waste some more time it would be interesting to see a comparison with Clojure in these categories :)

As a Lisp on the JVM, there will be similarities with Scala’s answers on features like hot code swapping, garbage collection, recursion, network I/O, libraries, and reliability. But I have to say David makes a good case on all of those.

Clojure’s author has issues with “location transparency”, so don’t hold your breath on that type of distribution.

Since it’s Lisp, you get a lot of the dynamicism and FP concepts that you know and love (a REPL, of course; I’m not sure how easy it is to get a remote one).

A big feature of Clojure is its immutable data structures, which all work with the built in software transactional memory and asynchronous agent/action systems for concurrency. In terms of scheduling, I believe those systems are built on threads.

No Mnesia, but I wonder if one could make a really nice one using the pure Java version of Berkeley DB.

I’m not trying to change your mind. You like Erlang and it has what you need today. But as a language for Java environments, it looks promising.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:38:47 +0000

This is a great post. I love your blog, keep it up.