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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

For the record, I said I'd prefer C++ because that's what I know, but
I wouldn't *mind* learning Erlang ;)

-jay

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Chris Behrens
<chris.behrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am very concerned about seeing a lot of "I'd love to learn Erlang" on something we probably don't want to screw up.  At the same time, I know there's a number of us very experienced with C/C++ (even with respect to concurrency/scalability).
>
> - Chris
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>
>> Quick comment on the languages from a dev community perspective:
>>
>> The Nova/Swift community is Python-based, so you won't directly reuse
>> it, whether you use C++ or Erlang. For new contributors, you either
>> target very experienced C++ developers (to get concurrency/scalability
>> right), or moderately-experienced Erlang devs. Both probably come in
>> short supplies... but you might find more people willing to learn Erlang
>> than people willing to perfect their C++ skills (me for example).
>>
>> I've a slight preference for Erlang because it will probably be more
>> difficult to do it wrong, and my gut feeling is that Python devs might
>> be more convertible to Erlang than to C++.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>> Release Manager, OpenStack
>>
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