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Distributed systems programming has stalled

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287 points shadaj | 3 comments | 27 Feb 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | source
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hinkley ◴[27 Feb 25 18:20 UTC] No.43196932[source]▶
I don’t think there’s anyone in the Elixir community who wouldn’t love it if companies would figure out that everyone is writing software that contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Erlang, and start hiring Elixir or Gleam devs.

The future is here, but it is not evenly distributed.

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1. ignoramous ◴[27 Feb 25 19:29 UTC] No.43197600[source]▶
> writing software that contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Erlang

Since you were at AWS (?), you'd know that Erlang did get its shot at distributed systems there. I'm unsure what went wrong, but if not c/c++, it was all JVM based languages soon after that.

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2. hinkley ◴[27 Feb 25 19:54 UTC] No.43197805[source]▶
No I worked a contract in the retail side and would not wish that job on anyone. My most recent favorite boss works there now and I haven’t even said hi because I’m afraid he’ll offer me a job.
3. worthless-trash ◴[01 Mar 25 11:46 UTC] No.43218359[source]▶
I have noticed that in corporate, langauges dont fail on technical merit, but its fashion merits.