Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java

Re:Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java by vladev on Friday December 04, 2009 @10:27AM (#976476)

Call me a skeptic, but this project ditches Erlang's awesome VM and takes only the clunky language syntax and puts it on the JVM.

I wonder how things like process isolation will work out.

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Re:Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java by sriramk on Friday December 04, 2009 @11:37AM (#976615)

You beat me to it. My first reaction was "Wait - how is preserving Erlang's syntax but losing the VM a good thing?". I'd love projects going the other direction - a more modern syntax built on Erlang's rock-solid VM + OTP libraries.

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Re:Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java by oconnor0 on Friday December 04, 2009 @03:02PM (#977078)

What are the names of some of those projects?

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Re:Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java by frig8 on Friday December 04, 2009 @03:53PM (#977175)

Reia http://wiki.reia-lang.org/wiki/Reia_Programming_Language

Lisp Flavored Erlang http://github.com/rvirding/lfe

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Re:Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java by bad_user on Friday December 04, 2009 @12:16PM (#976711)

I don't see a problem with process isolation ... you can control the bytecode generated from the compiler, and then you make the Java FFI really hard to please.

Since Erlang uses light-weight processes, this is exactly what the Erlang VM is doing.

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Re:Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java by xtho on Friday December 04, 2009 @01:49PM (#976936)

I'm always skeptic if there is only one actively maintained implementation of a language in use. In this respect, this is per se a good thing.

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