OlegDB OlegDB Blog Downloads FAQ Docs Community Content right_side_nav Grid 2015-01-31 by Quinlan Pfiffer Comments During our most recent episode of OlegDB muckery, I glossed over how we migrated from Erlang to Go for the latest release. I also promised that I would go over in more detail why we switched and what the benefit was, even if our lines added/removed was about the same. The first thing I would like to clarify is that OlegDB is not primarily written in Go, nor was it primarily written in Erlang. OlegDB is, and will always be, a giant C hairball. I say hairball with the fondest conotations a neurotic developer can conjure up. It seems many people were confused about this concept, so I will repeat: We did not rewrite OlegDB in Go, we rewrote the communication layer from Erlang to Go. So to go over why we switched, I'll elaborate on the reasons I...