Is there a groundswell of interest in Erlang?

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 and scrip-y-ness that makes ruby such a joy to build web applications. I’d personally love to see a framework, purely in erlang that provides MVC but allows for construction of actual web pages in a ‘ruby-lite’ language that gets parsed/compiled and executed in the erlang VM.

Erlyweb is a good start, but it doesn’t go far enough.