Scaling Reliably: Improving the Scalability of the Erlang Distributed Actor Platform · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.07234/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTScaling Reliably: Improving the Scalability of the Erlang Distributed Actor Platform — mentioned by dmitriidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16051828urn:hackerpapers:mention:1704.07234:16051828Tue, 02 Jan 2018 13:57:44 GMT<p>I ran a Russian Erlang community site for years, I know pretty much everything there is to know about what&#x27;s happening in Erlang space. I also worked with Erlang professionally. Despite Erlang&#x27;s and Erlang community&#x27;s claims to how good the language is, it is not that good. While Erlang (and it&#x27;s community) where telling everyone how far ahead in the future it is, other languages and platforms (especially JVM) have caught up to it, and moved way past it. It&#x27;s nearly impossible to implement anything on par with Hadoop, Kafka, Kubernetes, &lt;countless other distributed frameworks/tools/libraries…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1704.07234/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.PL