Spawnfest is the annual 48 hour Erlang development competition where you can compete against other developers in building the best, most breathtaking Erlang application, library or anything you like! It’s July 9th and 10th anywhere in the world. They say, “We hope Spawnfest will help bring the Erlang developer community together and get people interested [...]
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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.
RabbitMQ acquired by SpringSource/VMWare
Erlang-based RabbitMQ was acquired today by SpringSource…
Mustache – GitHub’s framework agnostic templating ported to Erlang
Mustache is an Erlang port of the Ruby framework of the same name, originally written by Chris Wanstrath, one of the founders of GitHub. A powerful feature of this type of framework is the ability to write a ‘template’ that you could use in a Rails application and then reuse in an Erlang application with [...]
The State of Erlang Web Middleware – EWGI and SimpleBridge
In the interest of publishing more often and covering smaller topics, lets review web-server-agnostic middleware for Erlang. The current standard for Erlang web application middleware is EWGI, inspired by Python’s PEP 333 and providing similar functionality as Ruby’s Rack. All major Erlang web servers support EWGI, and most web frameworks. Created by Rusty Klophaus, SimpleBridge [...]
Comparing Erlang, Go, Java, and C
Tim over at timyang.net has an interesting ‘hello world’ web server test between Erlang, Go, Java, and C. The C code is an nginx plugin, Java uses the MINA framework; Erlang and Go are small standalone apps. Java ‘won’, with Erlang in second place. Interesting article and the first I’ve seen comparing Go and Erlang [...]
Playdar reduces codebase by 75% by rewriting music app in Erlang
Playdar, an open-source ‘music content resolver service’ that finds music on your local computers or your friends’ computers, then streams that music to you, rewrote the code in Erlang. From the original C++ codebase, Richard Jones reduced the lines of code by 75% – from 8000 to 2000 lines of code… The code is on [...]
New Erlang Documentation Site – erldocs.com
Dale Harvey’s erldocs.com takes a lot of the pain out of the old Erlang documentation
erlang:lists/2 – fault-tolerant news
Welcome to the second of the erlang:lists series where we list some interesting happenings in the world of Erlang. erlang:lists(NewErlangIRC) – Kevin Smith just launched a new IRC channel – #erlang-otp. Have an Erlang question you need answered quick? Wishing you had a friendly place to hang out online with other Erlangers? Tired of either [...]