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Erlang vs Pharo: 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 Pharo? The immersive programming experience. A pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
Erlang and Pharo belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.
Erlang is an open source tool with 7.75K GitHub stars and 2.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Erlang's open source repository on GitHub.
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 Pharo
- Purely object-oriented3
- Readable code3
- Image-based instead of source-file based3
- Great tooling3
- Dinamic live programming3
- Great syntax for anonymous functions (blocks)3
- Minimalist syntax3
- Programming in the debugger3
- Simple OOP3
- Great DSL capabilities3
- Interactive development2
- Great visualization tools2
- Great IDE2
- Open Source2
- Rapid development2
- Git integration out-of-the-box2
- Batteries included1
- Headless (CLI) support1
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Cons of Erlang
- Languange is not popular demand1