Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 18:25:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 17:09:31 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> You mean scale like Twitter and LinkedIn?
>
> Maybe that's why they still lose money hand over fist, 
> especially Twitter, because of all the extra servers they have 
> to buy. :p By comparison, Whatsapp was able to put millions of 
> users on a server with erlang and become profitable with much 
> less revenue:
>
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/bmvwftlyvlgmuehrtvlg@forum.dlang.org

I don't really understand how you can simultaneously advertise 
Erlang and bash Java for inefficiency.  I think the core 
concurrency model in Erlang is really great, and it scales 
horizontally to great effect, but it's a bear to do TCP work in 
and is far less efficient than Java, let alone C++.