diff --git a/site/library/Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.md b/site/library/Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.md index dc0b5cd08..b2b572f85 100644 --- a/site/library/Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.md +++ b/site/library/Seven Languages in Seven Weeks.md @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ The choice of languages has definitely aged in uneven ways: - [Scala](https://scala-lang.org) was probably at the very peak of its popularity to date as the book came out. Many of the Bay Area tech companies were adopting it as a Java replacement, leaning into its hybrid model which mixed object-oriented and functional idioms.[^less-novel] Unfortunately, the combination of a slow compiler, poor data structure performance in the early days, and the reality that most programmers just ended up using it as Java with a really weird syntax meant that it ended up with a bad reputation in the Valley and receded to a niche space for functional programming enthusiasts who needed or wanted to run on the JVM. The folks who preferred OO had a much smaller learning curve and more familiar syntax to just use [Kotlin] -- [Erlang](https://www.erlang.org) itself does not seem to have grown much in popularity as a language, though it definitely had a nice little spike of interest when people realized just how effective it was for pre-acquisition WhatsApp.[^rewrite] However, the [BEAM](https://www.erlang.org/blog/a-brief-beam-primer/) VM has become and increasingly popular target for *other* languages, starting with Elixir but now including quite a few others. Somewhat bizarrely to me, despite the boom in microservices in the 2010s, relatively few people seem to have taken a serious look at what Erlang and the BEAM bring to the table. +- [Erlang](https://www.erlang.org) itself does not seem to have grown much in popularity as a language, though it definitely had a nice little spike of interest when people realized just how effective it was for pre-acquisition WhatsApp.[^rewrite] However, the [BEAM](https://www.erlang.org/blog/a-brief-beam-primer/) VM has become and increasingly popular target for *other* languages, starting with Elixir but now including quite a few others. Somewhat bizarrely to me, despite the boom in microservices in the 2010s, relatively few people seem to have taken a serious look at what Erlang and the BEAM bring to the table. - [Clojure](https://clojure.org) had a bit of a boom at the same time and for a few years after the book came out. Growth seems to have leveled off, in part I suspect because the aforementioned Kotlin took a lot of the energy in the JVM world, and with a far lower “activation energy” than jumping into a Lisp—even a well-designed one. It has not gone anywhere, but like Ruby seems to have stabilized (and perhaps peaked), at least for now—but as with Ruby, the future is unclear.