erlang-vs-scala

[Robert Fraser]

renoX wrote:
> Ssome advantage of Erlang are mostly theoretical in my book: 'hot code 
> swapping' bah, if you want to have full availability you need redundant 
> hardware and you can use this for software version change (though it's 
> not trivial I agree).

When developing in Java for Eclipse (that has a ~1 min startup time), I 
frequently use hot-swapping and am often annoyed the sun JVM only allows 
hot-swapping for method body changes.

I looked into adding native code hot-swapping support on top of DDL, but 
it looked like all the challenges of writing a static linker + a dynamic 
linker + a compiler, so I gave up.