Voting you back up to 1, after you had predictably been downvoted...
You're not alone here.
I gave erlang more than one shot and really, really wanted to like it. It promises to simplify and robustify some of the most thorny distributed programming problems that I'm dealing with nearly every day, in ruby and python.
But, just like you, I couldn't get over the syntax. It's ugly. It's error-prone. It's ugly.
And that's a dealbreaker. The most powerful VM doesn't help when you have to work uphill against arcane syntax all day long. Nobody wants to do that. That's why ruby is so popular, despite the trainwreck that is MRI.
You're not alone here.
I gave erlang more than one shot and really, really wanted to like it. It promises to simplify and robustify some of the most thorny distributed programming problems that I'm dealing with nearly every day, in ruby and python.
But, just like you, I couldn't get over the syntax. It's ugly. It's error-prone. It's ugly.
And that's a dealbreaker. The most powerful VM doesn't help when you have to work uphill against arcane syntax all day long. Nobody wants to do that. That's why ruby is so popular, despite the trainwreck that is MRI.