I'm not saying anything (pos or negative) about node.js, but regarding erlang syntax, i'll make (circumstantial) arguments that erlang really is not complex:
- the pattern matching syntax of erlang, F#, ocaml and haskell is similar (obviously the 4 differ in a lot of details, but it's getting harder to avoid all 4 langs round these parts (HN)
- I don't have the stats in front of me, but if you look at LoC counts for the erlang killer apps (rabbitMQ, CouchDB, riak the dynamo clone, ejabberd etc) I think you'll see that the core functionality is usually a small number of thousands rather than 10K's of LoC.
(Looking for LoC stats, ohloh doesn't back me up, they show e.g. 180k for ejabberd, 18k for riak ... where the heck are LoC stats in github?
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I'm not saying anything (pos or negative) about node.js, but regarding erlang syntax, i'll make (circumstantial) arguments that erlang really is not complex:
- the pattern matching syntax of erlang, F#, ocaml and haskell is similar (obviously the 4 differ in a lot of details, but it's getting harder to avoid all 4 langs round these parts (HN)
- I don't have the stats in front of me, but if you look at LoC counts for the erlang killer apps (rabbitMQ, CouchDB, riak the dynamo clone, ejabberd etc) I think you'll see that the core functionality is usually a small number of thousands rather than 10K's of LoC.
(Looking for LoC stats, ohloh doesn't back me up, they show e.g. 180k for ejabberd, 18k for riak ... where the heck are LoC stats in github?