[erlang-questions] node.js vs erlang

Loïc Hoguin essen@REDACTED
Fri Jun 20 15:06:25 CEST 2014


I mean what.

On 06/20/2014 02:54 PM, Leonard Boyce wrote:
> 2) "What the hell is with the crazy 'defacto' indentation. I don't use
> or want to learn to use emacs, I'm perfectly happy with Sublime."

Why the hell are they not using Sublime? What's this 'defacto' 
indentation thing you mention? Most people write Erlang in their 
favorite editor. I use vim without any plugins myself.

> 3) "TDD is extremely painful. What should I be writing tests for?"

If it's painful then they're not doing it right. They should write tests 
for exactly the things they test manually. Doesn't need to be more than 
that at the beginning, tests can get added over time.

> 5) "No unicode aware/safe string library? wtf? Lists of integers?
> Binaries? Why in deities name does it have to be so convoluted?"

I'm not sure why they would say that. It's not like JS has good Unicode 
support either. Erlang has a number of ICU bindings available if you do 
need Unicode though.

> 7) "Dialyzer is dog slow"

Is it? Are they rebuilding the PLT all the time? It never takes more 
than 10s to dialyze for me on the bigger projects (usually < 2s though). 
Much faster than running tests (especially running tests by hand if 
that's what they'd prefer doing).

> 8) "What's up with the documentation organization? Why do I have to
> use google to be able to find anything in the official docs?
> Navigating the docs is crazy, I feel like it's still 1998"

???

http://www.erlang.org/erldoc

It sounds a lot like you/they're making their life harder than it should be.

-- 
Loïc Hoguin
http://ninenines.eu



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