Ask HN: Why is all the news about Erlang today?

by mrlebowski on 8/20/2009, 11:22 PM with 4 comments

Seriously, why ? Am I missing something.. ?

  • by tdoggette on 8/20/2009, 11:30 PM

    Maybe if you read some of the articles about Erlang you'd understand why we're so excited about it.

  • by larryrubin on 8/21/2009, 12:13 AM
  • by Sandman on 8/21/2009, 12:24 AM

    Because it's the international Erlang day :)

  • by erlanger on 8/21/2009, 12:15 AM

    Because Erlang/OTP/Mnesia is a very cool platform. Mochiweb and Yaws are awesome. String handling blows, but what are you doing handling strings in Erlang?