[erlang-questions] Erlang VM in Rust

Loïc Hoguin essen@REDACTED
Thu Sep 21 18:45:01 CEST 2017


On 09/21/2017 06:15 PM, James Churchman wrote:
> My opinion is that a full re-write of all VM's in Rust, especially the 
> Erlang VM should be a very very high priority in the world of computing 

There's a reason Netscape died...

Perhaps Rust can and should be used for parts of the VM, but a full 
rewrite would be suicide, especially considering BEAM development does 
not have gigantic resources to begin with.

Even if you rewrite only parts of the VM, while you're rewriting you're 
not improving the features stack.

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Loïc Hoguin
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