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Ask HN: What programming language would you use?
Imagine you are going to write an API for a mobile telephone network operator to sell charges to customers. What platform would you use? (Specially programming language and Database). I would be grateful if you could explain about your reasons.
- yrashk 14y agoErlang.
- ankurdhama 14y agoAnything that you are familiar with as the problem statement doesn't seems to be complex and hence can be easily done on any web platform
- iapi 14y agoI would suggest any programming that you are comfortable with and use a NoSQL Database. You can use Erlang because is not only about scalability but mostly about: reliability soft real-time characteristics (enabled by soft real-time GC which is possible because immutability [no cycles] and share nothing and so) performance in concurrent tasks (cheap task switch, cheap process spawn, actors model, ...) scalability - debatable in current state , but rapidly evolving
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