[erlang-questions] Erlang VM in Rust

Daniel Goertzen daniel.goertzen@REDACTED
Tue Sep 19 16:57:40 CEST 2017


How does Alpaca compare to F#/Ocaml?  After tasting some Rust and Elm,
working in Erlang makes me a bit nervous too.  My dream is to see a BEAM
ML-like achieve Elixir stature.

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:57 AM Karl Nilsson <kjnilsson@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 at 12:41 Jesper Louis Andersen <
> jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:38 PM Richard A. O'Keefe <ok@REDACTED>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What's your opinion of F#?  It seems to be the language
>>> of choice for people who liked Caml but need to take advantage
>>> of multiple cores.  I haven't done any benchmarking; I doubt
>>> that it could match OCaml in raw speed.
>>>
>>>
>> I have not used it enough to have an opinion (yet). Were I to communicate
>> a lot with the .NET platform, I'd probably pick it because it has a null
>> value and this is a necessity when talking to C# I'm told.
>>
>> Given that it runs under a pretty powerful JIT, it could perform really
>> well for a lot of tasks I think.
>>
>>
> F# doesn't typically have any speed advantages of any other .NET languages
> and in every comparison I've seen to OCaml it has performed worse. If
> anything the allocation costs induced by a functional first programming
> style means it is typically a bit slower than the equivalent C# code (also
> there is no goto).
>
> As a language F# is the nicest I've ever used substantially. I find it
> easy (and fun) to write reasonably correct code in. Also I hardly ever fear
> refactoring (compared to erlang where I break out in cold sweats even for
> code bases that pass dialyzer).
>
> I even like it so much I've started hacking on an fsharp to core erlang
> compiler. (https://github.com/kjnilsson/fez).
>
>
>
>> My "dream" would be an industry-supported parallel MLton :P
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