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
