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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.

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Pros of Erlang
Pros of Pharo
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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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    Purely object-oriented
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    Readable code
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    Image-based instead of source-file based
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    Great tooling
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    Dinamic live programming
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    Great syntax for anonymous functions (blocks)
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    Minimalist syntax
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    Programming in the debugger
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    Simple OOP
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    Great DSL capabilities
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    Interactive development
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    Great visualization tools
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    Great IDE
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    Open Source
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    Rapid development
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    Git integration out-of-the-box
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    Batteries included
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    Headless (CLI) support

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Cons of Erlang
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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 Pharo?

    A pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.

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