Over at hypothetical labs, the above question was asked – is there an erlang ‘groundswell’? I think Erlang interest is growing. I just started a project using erlang/mnesia instead of mysql as the backend, with ruby as the UI. Erlang will continue to grow and carve out a niche. But it lacks the text processing [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
“Erlang for the Ruby Guy” – In three parts
Jon Gretar has a three part series which is a simple introduction to Erlang for the Rubyist. He covers basic syntax, tuples, modules and functions and pattern matching, and the basics of recursion.
Ruby and Erlang can play nice together
InfoQ has a good article on Ruby and Erlang interaction. EngineYard, the most visible and successful rails-focused host, is using erlang in Vertebra, their cloud computing platform. Which, as we’ll cover in a separate post, is an incredibly powerful statement for the growing place for Erlang in cloud computing. Erlectricity is a ruby gem that [...]
Erlang Heroes
Ruby has Matz, C# has Anders Hielsberg, and Erlang has Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of the language. He has a blog here. I’m glad to see that as the language really starts to take off, one of the creators is still in the industry and there to be a part of it. That [...]
Welcome!
Hello, world. Welcome to the first Erlang news blog. Any and all news in the world of concurrent computing, we’ll try to cover it here. Learn more about the blog, here. Blog name and concept inspired by one of my favorite ruby blogs, Ruby Inside.