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0 pointscageface14y ago0 comments

Node is appealing because Javascript is ubiquitous, but I doubt it's harder to learn Erlang than it is to learn to write everything in nested callbacks.

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nirvana14y ago

You're correct. Erlang is actually pretty easy to learn, and quite a fun language, it just looks really, really weird (at first.)

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0 pointscageface14y ago0 comments

Node is appealing because Javascript is ubiquitous, but I doubt it's harder to learn Erlang than it is to learn to write everything in nested callbacks.

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nirvana14y ago

You're correct. Erlang is actually pretty easy to learn, and quite a fun language, it just looks really, really weird (at first.)

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