[ejiblabahaba]

Which language is this? I'm sure some people can clue this together from the hints, but I'm not one of them.

[Philpax]

Erlang / BEAM would seem to fit, but I haven't seen much disdain for it from HN posters; quite the opposite, actually.

[pavlov]

Yeah, it’s a surprising take because Erlang originally used to be a central object of reverence — some would say fetish — on HN.

There was “Erlang Day” when the entire HN front page was about Erlang because pg had made some offhand request for more technical content:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

This was nearly 16 years ago apparently… (In my mind it’s in the “sometime before Covid happened” bucket. Sigh.)

Maybe it’s time for another Erlang Day this March 11?

[namaria]

I seem to remember a phase when talking about it was denounced as vitriol, together with praising Rust. Maybe it was just a phase, maybe I took some random criticism too seriously.

[jasinjames]

Probably Java/Clojure

[flir]

Erlang/Elixir is also a possibility.

But I don't think either Java or Erlang were based on a PhD project?

(Edit: I just looked it up, and Joe Armstrong's PhD was 2003)

[namaria]

I meant Erlang/Elixir

Java is also based on a doctorate research on fault tolerance?

[kbn]

I think erlang