This is great - I would love to see Efene and Reia (to some extent, same language goals with ruby-esque syntax) take off, but the Erlang community is so small it's hard to see a critical mass for either developing. some reasons:<p>1. Erlang syntax really isn't that hard. As soon as you do a few real-world problems in it, you stop worrying about syntax and just focus on the solution.<p>2. Efene in particular doesn't make Erlang more 'scripty'.<p>3. Most people still need to learn Erlang fundamentals and they're going to have to do it in Erlang as that's all the documentation is written in. Until people start writing tutorials <i>in Efene</i> that teach the fundamentals of the Erlang <i>Platform</i>, thereby allowing a newbie to go from no knowledge of Erlang/OTP to being productive, they'll detour through "period/comma/semicolon alley" and probably won't come back.<p>Don't see this as negativity, i love what Mariano and Tony are doing with both languages...
Looks like Efene is written mostly in Efene. Wonderful stuff:<p><a href="http://github.com/marianoguerra/efene/blob/master/src/compiler/efene.fn" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/marianoguerra/efene/blob/master/src/compil...</a><p>marianoguerra: You should consider attending the Emerging Languages Conference this summer.<p><a href="http://emerginglangs.com/" rel="nofollow">http://emerginglangs.com/</a>
I like this. Looks and feels like Ruby, but it receiver patterns, instead of method_missing wonkiness. The arrow expression is cool as well.<p><a href="http://wiki.github.com/marianoguerra/efene/languagereference" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.github.com/marianoguerra/efene/languagereference</a>