[erlang-questions] Erlang VM in Rust

[Frank Muller]

Erlang newbie here ...  jumping into the subject.

While agree with most of the ideas about security, speed ... I still can't
get some really basic things.

1. Why one should trade a time-proven, close to metal, fars language like C
with more than ~40yrs of existence with a new one? We don't even know if
Rust will exist in the near future. That's not gonna be the case for C
apparently (IoT, etc.).

2. Why simply not simply learn how to better code our NIF/Drivers instead?
C was/is my main programming language for many years now, and I didn't have
any major issue with it (medium to large projects) in production
environment so far. Maybe I'm just lucky, maybe not.

Thanks for your comments and feedbacks.

/Frank

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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