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Erlang vs listmonk: What are the differences?
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; listmonk: Self-hosted newsletter + mailing list manager. It is a standalone, self-hosted, newsletter and mailing list manager. It is fast, feature-rich, and packed into a single binary. It uses a PostgreSQL database as its data store.
Erlang can be classified as a tool in the "Languages" category, while listmonk is grouped under "Email Marketing".
Erlang and listmonk are both open source tools. Erlang with 7.8K GitHub stars and 2.12K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than listmonk with 2.68K GitHub stars and 90 GitHub forks.
Pros of Erlang
- Concurrency Support60
- Real time, distributed applications60
- Fault tolerance56
- Soft real-time35
- Open source31
- Functional programming21
- Message passing20
- Immutable data15
- Works as expected13
- Facebook chat uses it at backend5
- Practical4
- Knowledgeable community4
- Bullets included3