This was way overdue. I apologize for not running this meetup for a while, been pretty busy.
Anyway, I am excited to announce an unusually scheduled Erlang June meetup ? it is going to be Monday 25th and we're going to talk about the language itself.
We'll have two talks this time.
Talk #1. Alex Kropivny: Object Oriented Erlang (OOE)
Are you familiar with OOP? How about high availability systems with extreme fault tolerance?
Come use your knowledge of one, to learn all about the other! Erlang is built on a few simple principles, which happen to have object-oriented analogies. We'll use these analogies to explore how byzantine error recovery can be made a default property of your code.
The goal is to express important ideas in popular terms. We'll leave Java and Ruby's worst excesses behind, and focus on the core ideas that got OOP started.
Talk #2. Yurii Rashkovskii: Why did I re-evaluate Elixir when it dropped OO?
We all know Erlang has certain limitations, for better or worse. It also makes you write a lot of boilerplate. Sometimes we can put up with it, sometimes it just irritates.
Last year I dismissed Elixir as an attempt to convert Ruby to Erlang. But then I rediscovered it when I found it dropped OO.
And I found something interesting... a meta-compiler for Erlang.
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