<div dir="ltr">Just from a teaching and retooling perspective, moving a programmer along the path from Java -> Scala -> Akka is on the surface more straightforward than moving that programmer from Java -> Erlang -> OTP -- many of the paradigms and supporting frameworks and tools are comfortably similar, and old code can just be linked in.<div>
<br></div><div>That said, I've personally found that the sort of things for which you actually need Erlang or Akka tend to be such discontinuities against the curve of regular practice as to dwarf the effect of comfortable similarity, and that other, more major forcing functions come into play; and further, that anyone who can play in the world of those forcing functions can come to use Erlang or Akka or whatever else they need in the service of getting the code to work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, like benchmarks, try it out in your specific use case and measure your results yourself.</div><div><br></div><div>F.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com" target="_blank">jesper.louis.andersen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Youngkin, Rich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.youngkin@pearson.com" target="_blank">richard.youngkin@pearson.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Akka has been proposed as an alternative to Erlang.</blockquote></div></div><br>What are the arguments for Akka, as opposed to the arguments for Erlang?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Library availability is definitely a valid concern. Yet, any library in any language will have errors and mistakes. A good point about Erlang is that the occasionally bad library tend to hurt your program less for the simple fact that proper isolation saves the day.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>J.
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