Xenia! Woo
Erlang VM is supposed to be used for applications that need high reliability (it was developed for the telecom industry). A common idiom in Erlang applications is running many instances of a process and letting it crash when facing an unrecoverable error. After it crashes, it restarts, hence the meme.
Sad to hear! If you’re truly willing to move to Linux, you could run either in a VM on the other OS, and use Linux for personal stuff, leaving Windows for MS-only apps
Opens dirty trenchcoat
“Hey kid, wanna try some nix/guix packages?”
Hey, what do you mean 20% of your hardware goes to docker? If you’re not running linux then docker isn’t the issue, it’s the VM. If you are running linux, it should be just as lightweight as say, systemd
Cool but can they run Linux
Check out https://toys.whereis.みんな and nonguix which have a ton of proprietary stuff, and the tools in nonguix make it simple to package binaries for personal install if you want something quickly
Hey, if you’re talking about Nix, Guix is a similar niche and I’ve had a great experience with the folks in the IRC chat and mailing list. Do try it out.
pretty wild that natural selection just allowed that to happen. But then, the same can be said of many cable set-ups
The old version will still be available under whatever license it was released with