ezmq

ZeroMQ implemented in Erlang

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ZeroMQ implemented in Erlang

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
Dec 5	2016-12-05 00:00:00 UTC	2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Dec 12	2016-12-12 00:00:00 UTC	2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 19	2016-12-19 00:00:00 UTC	2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 26	2016-12-26 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2	2017-01-02 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 9	2017-01-09 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 16	2017-01-16 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 23	2017-01-23 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-30 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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wilsonfiifi·Jan 27, 2017

The presence of ZeroMQ in the list of projects built with erlang also made me frown as well. But in the author's defence, there is a pure erlang implementation of zeromq [0] [0] https://github.com/zeromq/ezmq

In Comparing Elixir and Go

SomeCallMeTim·Dec 9, 2016

A key advantage that Node has? NPM with 350,000 packages. Granted they aren't all top quality packages, but thousands are. I was working on one project that used ZeroMQ, as a random example. There are excellent packages for Node, including a well maintained version for the newest 4.0 branch. For Elixir, when a team wanted to interface using ZeroMQ, the best they could find was a "work in progress, not ready for production use" build that was a partial re-implementation of ZeroMQ 3.1, and that specifically lacked the elliptic encryption feature that we were using. The more mature ports to Erlang similarly doesn't support the encryption we were using. [1] There's one native binding that seems to only support 3.1 (at most) as well [2], but it's something you need to build and configure, as opposed to "npm install zeromq --save", or better ye

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t, "yarn add zeromq", and then your project will work on any system without any complex build rules to get it working. That's just one package that I tried to use, and it's a popular network message queue package (two full ports to native Erlang!). If I had tried to do something more obscure I'm sure I would have had even more problems. Another key advantage is that there are probably 10x the number of developers ready to hit the ground running on a Node project than there are Go developers, or 50x as many as Elixir or Erlang developers. I don't know if you've tried to do much hiring, but it's hard enough finding developers for a language that's popular. (And no, I'm not counting "front end" JavaScript developers; if I were, I would have said 100x or more.) If you're hiring in an area that isn't highly tech focused, you might not be able to hire a single developer with experience. [1] https://github.com/zeromq/ezmq/issues/31 and https://github.com/chovencorp/chumak (supports only the "NULL" security framework -- there's a note lower down on the page that Curve isn't supported) [2] https://github.com/zeromq/erlzmq2

In Comparing Haskell and Node concurrency performance