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Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

Chad DePue — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:10:44 -0000

Thanks for the link. I really want to help grow the community around the language, particularly regarding web development. Just posted an interview on the Nitrogen web framework, and will be interviewing other people and technologies in the Erlang community in the coming weeks. - Chad (Erlang Inside)

Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

Fino — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:19:15 -0000

Functional programming on top of the JVM?
You can put lipstick on pig but....

Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

ianso — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:06:59 -0000

It's possible also that new languages / patches-to-languages will take what makes Erlang great and run with it. Kilim comes to mind: http://www.malhar.net/srira...

Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

Isaac Gouy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:23:08 -0000

Adam wrote > "It's fast. Not as fast as C, but probably less than 3x slower. Since most other high-level languages are an order of magnitude slower than C, this is a big, big difference.*

Seems like you have plucked "probably less than 3x slower" out of thin air!

(And you need to say what you mean by "high-level languages" - Java?)

James wrote > "I'll point you to the Shootout, which is admittedly misleading."

In what way does it mislead?

Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

Austin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:10:04 -0000

Thanks for the list of blogs Adam. I went looking for solid Erlang information and had a tough go. These provide a point of entry.

Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

James Cunningham — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:25:51 -0000

I'm not sure some of your points are quite the case. There's a lot of good documentation available for Ocaml and Haskell, in my experience more than for Erlang. Ocaml at least is very easy to compile and is available in MacPorts and almost certainly any Linux repo worth talking about. (As is GHC.)

HiPE is also not quite a speed demon. I'll point you to the Shootout, which is admittedly misleading.

Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

Don Stewart — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:52:02 -0000

BTW, GHC Haskell's in every package system (with 570 packages in Arch Linux, for example), building from source is trivial (cabal install), there are ~800 open source libraries available on http://hackage.haskell.org, and there's an O'Reilly book about it.

So bring it on! :-)

Re: Adam @ Heroku. Erlang

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:21:56 -0000

have you checked out Scala? wondering your thoughts.