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Erlang Scheduler Details and Why They Matter

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Resurfaced independently across 2 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
3
submitters
3
observed span
2016–2018
peak thread · 30 comments
188 pts
latest 20+ return · 2018-12-24
151 pts

Submission timeline

2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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I am enjoying the steam that both Erlang and Elixir are gaining here on Hacker News. They're both interesting, well designed languages built atop a rock solid VM with some great abstractions for concurrency. I'm hoping that this trend continues because out of all the noise of new languages and frameworks I feel like Erlang/Elixir are very deserving of becoming the new way forward for developing anything that runs on a network.

bnchrch·188-point thread·

This is a great post to know about if you do Erlang/Elixir professionally. There was conversation back in 2016 that is still relevant today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064763

sb8244·151-point thread·

The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.

Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
340

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Total comments
49

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2016-02-09Erlang Scheduler Details and Why They MatterFirst breakout · Best threadhamidreza-s18830
2018-04-23Erlang Scheduler Details and Why It Matters (2016)rubyn00bie10
2018-12-24Erlang Scheduler Details (2016)Latest 20+ point returnStreamBright15119