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.behr...@rackspace.com> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp