+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
so, which "fringe" language should i try out next?
if someone has any other recommendations, i'd like to hear them. it should be something with real-world use (so maybe a bit older), and a free software compiler/interpreter.
@bonifartius Pony Language (https://www.ponylang.io)
@niclas certainly looks interesting!
@bonifartius And the actor model built into the language itself, like Erlang/Elixir... And serious performance and quite small footprint in resulting binaries.
@niclas i want to try erlang too, because the network transparent concurrency seems to be rather interesting. the learn you an erlang book didn't work for me though, so i probably need something else to learn it :)
@bonifartius Erlang is painful to learn. Not only is the syntax "different", but since it is dynamic typing one needs to start with Test Driven Development and how to use that on Erlang, and figure out how to use a debugger with it. Steep.
Elixir at least gives an easier syntax.
I basically picked up Erlang via Joe Armstrong presentations on YouTube + a small project of something I had implemented before in other languages.
@niclas yeah, i've had contact with the syntax back in the days because of ejabberd and it's config. wasn't pleasant to be thrown in there without warning :) on the other hand erlang is really an interesting system with the.distributed actors etc.
,i guess i'll just watch the.presentations you've mentioned and move on from there.
