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Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by tdupree on Thursday October 16, 2008 @04:37PM (#334914)
After seeing it referenced a lot on HN, I've also been really interested in learning Erlang.

What projects have you fellow hackers used/are using Erlang for? Are you glad you did?

Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by RKlophaus on Thursday October 16, 2008 @07:24PM (#335094)
I just published a screencast demo of a web framework that I made in Erlang, called Nitrogen.

See http://nitrogen-erlang.tumblr.com

Also, the technology behind my startup company, Stitcho.com is in Erlang. See http://www.stitcho.com

I would definitely recommend it, especially if you are one of those people who really stretches a language. Once you get past the new syntax, it is very quick to learn.

Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by phr on Friday October 17, 2008 @12:36PM (#335750)
RKlophaus: Your stitcho.com site needs to tell the reader more about why they need Stitcho -- on the first page.
Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by brianr on Thursday October 16, 2008 @05:28PM (#334986)
I wrote a message queue server that uses the memcached protocol (so I could use memcache client libraries to connect to it), similar to Starling/Sparrow. Starling and Sparrow kept falling over from the volume of connections, so I decided to write my own in Erlang. We've been using it in production for about 6 months now, and it works great.
Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by aaronblohowiak on Thursday October 16, 2008 @05:47PM (#335002)
Any plans to open source it?
Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by brianr on Thursday October 16, 2008 @09:42PM (#335191)
Yeah, that's been on my list for months. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend...
Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by aaronblohowiak on Friday October 17, 2008 @02:28PM (#335847)
please email me when you do - aaron.blohowiak at google's popular free email host.
Re:Ask HN: Learning Erlang from scratch by moonpolysoft on Thursday October 16, 2008 @06:10PM (#335027)
I wrote a clone of Amazon's dynamo. It really helped speed up development vs. trying to do it in a language like Java or C++. http://github.com/cliffmoon/dynomite