Spending my time in the Elixir/Erlang world has shifted my focus onto reliability as a central criteria in selecting tech. I had some such tendencies before, preferring Postgres to the NoSQL hype when that was a thing.
But now I’m thinking about the programming languages I look at for reliability where I feel like the language and ecosystem has priorities that align with mine.
I tend to lump the Elixir/Erlang/BEAM ecosystem in with some other languages. Specifically Rust which seems like the future for native extension in Elixir. And then we have Go which seems to be great for self-contained binaries and very popular for some types of devops infrastructure projects (such as the Rancher stuff, k3s, rio…). I don’t code in Rust or Go currently. But I sense a kind of kinship in aggregate from reading about and using software from those ecosystems.
Do you have another constellation you’d consider belong together? Do you feel like my estimation about these languages and their priorities are mostly right, mostly wrong?