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Erlang vs Imba: What are the differences?

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.

What is Imba? Take a whole lot of Ruby, a pinch of Python and some React, get Imba. Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant and readable JavaScript. It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes.

Erlang and Imba belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.

Erlang and Imba are both open source tools. It seems that Erlang with 7.74K GitHub stars and 2.1K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Imba with 3.5K GitHub stars and 128 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Erlang
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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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      Languange is not popular demand
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      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.

      What is Imba?

      Imba is a new programming language for the web that compiles to performant and readable JavaScript. It has language level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering dom nodes.

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        What are some alternatives to Erlang and Imba?
        Elixir
        Elixir leverages the Erlang VM, known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems, while also being successfully used in web development and the embedded software domain.
        Haskell
        It is a general purpose language that can be used in any domain and use case, it is ideally suited for proprietary business logic and data analysis, fast prototyping and enhancing existing software environments with correct code, performance and scalability.
        Golang
        Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
        Clojure
        Clojure is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system.
        Akka
        Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.
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