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Emu vs Erlang: What are the differences?

What is Emu? A language for programming GPUs. A high-level language for programming GPUs. Unlike other languages such as OpenCL or Halide that are designed for embedding in C or C++, Emu is designed for embedding in Rust.

What is Erlang? A programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.

Emu and Erlang can be categorized as "Languages" tools.

Emu and Erlang are both open source tools. It seems that Erlang with 7.75K GitHub stars and 2.1K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Emu with 980 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.

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      Real time, distributed applications
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      Concurrency Support
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      Fault tolerance
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      Soft real-time
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      Open source
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      Message passing
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      Functional programming
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      Immutable data
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      Works as expected
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      Facebook chat uses it at backend
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      Practical
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      Knowledgeable community
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      Bullets included
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      WhatsApp uses it at backend

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      What is Emu?

      A high-level language for programming GPUs. Unlike other languages such as OpenCL or Halide that are designed for embedding in C or C++, Emu is designed for embedding in Rust.

      What is Erlang?

      Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.

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