Fred Hebert is an Erlang enthusiast based in the unexplored Northern parts of Quebec (relatively speaking). He is so enthusiastic, in fact, that he started writing Learn You Some Erlang for great good! a free online book designed to teach Erlang, functional programming and basic computer science concepts. He started his career working with backend [...]
Posts under ‘interviews’
Interview with Tino Breddin, Embedded Erlang developer, on the social science of tech communities.
Why are communities such as Erlang’s and Ruby’s so different? What makes them approchable or not? Is America the problem? Should we forcibly relocate all Ruby developers to Sweden? Tino talks about that question and others in this fascinating interview. Follow Tino on twitter at @tolbrino and follow me at @chaddepue. Get an alert when [...]
Interview with Kostis Sagonas – On Erlang tools, type systems, and how HiPE compares to JIT
Chad DePue long form interview with Kostis Sagonas, leader of the HiPE and Dialyzer teams and a speaker at the upcoming Erlang Factory SF Bay.
Erlang Inside Interviews Joe Armstrong
Writing Ruby code for a living, building a company in a foreign country, learning a human foreign language (Spanish) and a computer foreign language (Erlang) on the side hasn’t left a lot of time for blogging about Erlang. But in the past month we were able to spend a few minutes w/Joe Armstrong, creator of [...]
Interview with Tony Arcieri on Reia and Erlang, Part II
For part I, click here. Where is Reia in the development cycle? When will it be Beta/Production Ready? You can consider it to be in an “early alpha” stage at this point. There are a number of open tickets for known issues on our ticket tracker. While there are a small number of tests many [...]
Interview with Reia Creator Tony Arcieri on Erlang, Reia, Python, and Rails
We interrupt the recent holiday related posting haitus with an interview with Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia. Tony agreed to answer some questions about Reia. Tony has a lot more information on Reia in the FAQ, where he covers reasons for some of the design decisions of the language. He can be reached at his [...]