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eggy on Aug 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Crystal: Fast as C, Slick as Ruby

LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) is a great alternative to Elixir if you prefer Lisp over Ruby syntax. Pony lang is looking to enter the BEAM/OTP arena with its own implementation of supervisors and such. It is actor-based, OOP and is supposedly very fast in the distributed niche.

Scarbutt on Aug 4, 2016 [–]

Since I haven't had use cases for the BEAM/OTP, LFE is definitely what's motivating me to finally dive into the whole erlang ecoystem.

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