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Discussion on: I'm learning all about Erlang this weekend. I'm feeling pretty lost but I'm having fun.‬

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Ben Halpern

Erlang'a history is pretty fascinating in that it was designed specifically to solve parallelism issues with telephony infrastructure in the 80s which just happens to be a really scalable way to build with distributed systems in mind. I'm trying not to be too practical minded in my learnings now, mostly doing it for the fun right now, learning syntax and simple concepts.

Early on I'm finding it to be a pretty fun divergence from the language patterns I'm used to. I'm not super familiar with Elixir but I presume that environment injects them back in a bit for practical purposes.