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This is a very typical diplomatic answer to stick with old, known programming languages.

• arcturus17 7y ago
  Maybe because a lot of the time it's good advice?
• SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
  Often case that isn't the wrong way to go. Newer doesn't mean better, and there's always trade-offs to consider. "It's newer" by itself really shouldn't be much of a consideration.
  • nevertoolate 7y ago
    Erlang is older, more suitable, more stable and less well known. Nobody mentioned that it is better because newer.
    • SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
      No, but the person I'm responding to is implying that using old, known languages is somehow a bad thing.
  • verttii 7y ago
    But in this concrete case his point is valid, I'd likewise expect Erlang's BEAM to outperform node.js in concurrency any day of the week. Elixir being new is fairly irrelevant because it compiles down to the same erlang BYTE CODE. Erlang is 30 years old.