While I was on vacation, Erlang/OTP 20 RC1 was released. As you can see in that page, these are the highlights according to the OTP team: (more…)

We love Rails, but we believe that Ruby is the wrong choice of platform on which to build a simple, fast, reliable website. The alternatives aren't much better: the JVM, V8, Python, and Perl all eventually run into the problem of dog-slow server-side temp... (more…)

erlang-ffi - A Foreign Function Interface that lets Haskell and Erlang programs communicate.

It's been a while since the last update on docsh and over a year since the idea of shell access to Erlang docs originally emerged in my mind. Believe it or not, the project has seen a huge progress, though one might argue that at a pace a tad slower than ... (more…)

I’ve always considered Erlang to be an excellent general purpose programming language. With that, the one-off projects that aren’t systems or servers always had the bloat of OTP, and never felt right. (more…)