this is great but one of the real advantages of Erlang is the ability to pass messages between processes on different nodes (or, in the heroku case dynos) without worrying about which node you're on, but it's impossible for different nodes to communicate on heroku as they won't open the EPMD ports (and won't allow an EPMD daemon to run). This means Erlang on Heroku is still going to be limited.
This is good news. Now if they will just support Riak, I might be able to port nirvana to it. (Nirvana is the coffeescript/javascript distributed web platform I'm building for our startup. It runs across a riak cluster and distributes javascript in a concurrent manner over it.)<p>Nirvana is really "just" a webmachine App.<p>PS: My startup entered Startup Chile which is announcing results today: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3361777" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3361777</a>