Ask HN: What programming language would you use?

1 pointssasanrose14y ago3 comments

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.

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iapi14y ago

I 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

ankurdhama14y ago

Anything 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

yrashk14y ago

Erlang.

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