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Erlang vs Zsh (Z shell): What are the differences?
What is Erlang? A programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.
What is Zsh (Z shell)? An extended Bourne shell with a large number of improvements. An interactive login shell, command interpreter and scripting language.
Erlang belongs to "Languages" category of the tech stack, while Zsh (Z shell) can be primarily classified under "Shells".
Erlang and Zsh (Z shell) are both open source tools. It seems that Erlang with 7.75K GitHub stars and 2.1K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Zsh (Z shell) with 1.47K GitHub stars and 205 GitHub forks.
Pros of Erlang
- Real time, distributed applications62
- Concurrency Support62
- Fault tolerance58
- Soft real-time36
- Open source32
- Message passing22
- Functional programming22
- Immutable data16
- Works as expected14
- Facebook chat uses it at backend6
- Practical5
- Knowledgeable community5
- Bullets included4
- WhatsApp uses it at backend1
Pros of Zsh (Z shell)
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Cons of Erlang
- Languange is not popular demand1