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Distributed systems programming has stalled

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287 points shadaj | 1 comments | 27 Feb 25 16:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.328s | 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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ikety ◴[27 Feb 25 19:08 UTC] No.43197396[source]▶
It's so odd seeing people dissuade others for implementing "niche" languages like Elixir or Gleam. If you post a job opportunity with these languages, I guarantee you will be swamped with qualified candidates that are very passionate and excited to work with these languages full time.
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1. hinkley ◴[28 Feb 25 18:11 UTC] No.43208610[source]▶
At this point I’m worried that because elixir is over 10 years old that it’ll never arrive. But then Python is older than Java and here we are.