You may be familiar with 37 Signals, the guys who brought us Ruby on Rails, Campfire, Basecamp, among other products. Mark makes a wonderful case for using the right tool for the job in this “Nuts & Bolts” post, on how the Campfire internals work better with Erlang. Campfire is a web based messaging/chatroom system [...]
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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 [...]
Interview with Rusty Klophaus on the Nitrogen Erlang Web Framework
Nitrogen is the soon to be released Erlang framework for web development that uses an event based programming model similar to ASP.NET. Rusty Klophaus, the creator of the framework, agreed to answer some questions about Nitrogen and how he got started in the Erlang community. This is the first in our series of Q&A sessions [...]
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 [...]