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Posted to dev@couchdb.apache.org by Thad Guidry <th...@gmail.com> on 2009/10/01 00:56:26 UTC

One question on Scala VS Erlang

Hi Damien,

One more question for you.

When you were investigating languages early on (with "CouchDB" idea in
mind), what was the one BIG reason that you DID NOT like Scala over Erlang
?  I know about all the many differences.  I'm just looking for your opinion
at that time you made your choice.

Thanks,
Thad

Re: One question on Scala VS Erlang

Posted by Damien Katz <da...@apache.org>.

I don't think I'd heard of Scala at the time, or it was a very  
immature. I'd still make the same decision, as the Erlang VM is better  
suited to supporting the actor model, particularly in failure scenarios.

-Damien

On Sep 30, 2009, at 6:56 PM, Thad Guidry wrote:

> Hi Damien,
>
> One more question for you.
>
> When you were investigating languages early on (with "CouchDB" idea in
> mind), what was the one BIG reason that you DID NOT like Scala over  
> Erlang
> ?  I know about all the many differences.  I'm just looking for your  
> opinion
> at that time you made your choice.
>
> Thanks,
> Thad