[Openstack] Queue Service, next steps

Chris Behrens chris.behrens at rackspace.com
Mon Feb 21 18:46:58 UTC 2011


I guess that's what I'm trying to say for this project.  My opinion would be to stick with what we know. :)

Do we have enough Erlang knowledge right now?  I would not want to see Eric get burned out because he can't get help.  I've seen it happen before when Erlang was chosen and the project ended up a complete failure.

I'd like to learn Erlang better.  But, I wouldn't to be able to help significantly any time soon... or at least not where I could contribute the quality of code that this project needs.  It feels like I've seen a lot of similar replies.

- Chris

On Feb 21, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> For the record, I said I'd prefer C++ because that's what I know, but
> I wouldn't *mind* learning Erlang ;)
> 
> -jay
> 
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Chris Behrens
> <chris.behrens at rackspace.com> wrote:
>> I am very concerned about seeing a lot of "I'd love to learn Erlang" on something we probably don't want to screw up.  At the same time, I know there's a number of us very experienced with C/C++ (even with respect to concurrency/scalability).
>> 
>> - Chris
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 21, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> 
>>> Quick comment on the languages from a dev community perspective:
>>> 
>>> The Nova/Swift community is Python-based, so you won't directly reuse
>>> it, whether you use C++ or Erlang. For new contributors, you either
>>> target very experienced C++ developers (to get concurrency/scalability
>>> right), or moderately-experienced Erlang devs. Both probably come in
>>> short supplies... but you might find more people willing to learn Erlang
>>> than people willing to perfect their C++ skills (me for example).
>>> 
>>> I've a slight preference for Erlang because it will probably be more
>>> difficult to do it wrong, and my gut feeling is that Python devs might
>>> be more convertible to Erlang than to C++.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>>> Release Manager, OpenStack
>>> 
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