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		shmerl on May 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Go? Why not. People wrote Yaws in Erlang. Let's see some web servers in Go and Rust, and compare what's more robust for parallel connections.

IsTom on May 14, 2013 [–]

Erlang is a way more mature piece of software. It has been around for 27 years and most of the time it was used commercially.

shmerl on May 14, 2013 | [–]

I'd rather compare Rust to Erlang, than Go. At least conceptually. However the fact that languages are young shouldn't stop people from writing servers in them.

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