I think Erlang is a cool programming language to write parallel apps.
So far, the only compelling reason I've heard of for using Erlang is that it has good support for concurrency. But how useful is that if you need 16 cores to break even with a single core program written in a more conventional language?
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=hipe&lang2=gcc
Are there other good reason to use Erlang over Haskell or Ocaml or even C or Java?
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So far, the only compelling reason I've heard of for using Erlang is that it has good support for concurrency. But how useful is that if you need 16 cores to break even with a single core program written in a more conventional language?
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=hipe&lang2=gcc
Are there other good reason to use Erlang over Haskell or Ocaml or even C or Java?