[erlang-questions] The quest for the perfect programming language for massive concurrency.

[Zachary Kessin]

>  1. The tools are, well frankly, garbage. Sorry, in 2014 to be pushed
>     back to coding with VIM and makefiles is primitive. Rebar is
>     crytptic and just the pet project of a guy on GIT. Compared to
>     Gradle, Maven and even (though I don't care for it much) SBT,
>     rebar is ... lacking. I want to spend time working on my business
>     logic, not fighting tools. There are plugins for eclipse and
>     intellij but they have minimal functionality and i keep reverting
>     back to vim.
>
Actually the tools are quite good, you are just looking at the wrong set 
of tools. Yes Make in one form or another has been around forever (1977) 
but to my mind that means that it actually does the job well, and has 
had all the weird bugs found and pushed out years ago. It is quite good 
at doing the minimal amount of work that is required at any given time 
and will use as many cores as you have around. Rebar has a few weird 
issues but is generally pretty good.

Most of the hard core Erlang folks seem to use Emacs and many of the 
tools are setup to work there.

That being said there are a group of tools that you probably haven't 
even looked at that are quite powerful and are worth your time, these 
include Dialyzer, Wrangler, PropEr or QuickCheck, and Concuerror.

If you define tools to be a fancy IDE then Erlang is lacking, but if you 
define tools as stuff that helps you ship code then Erlang has some 
amazing tools.

-- 
Zachary Kessin
Mostly Erlang Podcast <http://mostlyerlang.com>
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