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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.
Pros of Erlang
- Real time, distributed applications62
- Concurrency Support62
- Fault tolerance58
- Soft real-time36
- Open source32
- Message passing22
- Functional programming22
- Immutable data16
- Works as expected14
- Facebook chat uses it at backend6
- Practical5
- Knowledgeable community5
- Bullets included4
- WhatsApp uses it at backend1
Pros of Imba
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Cons of Erlang
- Languange is not popular demand1