Perhaps a different topic is appropriate this time. I wasn't here when we did Erlang the first time, but I'm assuming that those who were are now tired of it. I think (though I may be wrong) that I'd be more interested in seeing some clever brainf and other esolang entries.
Interesting. In the absence of a downvoting feature, HN has evolved a mechanism for clearing unwanted articles off the homepage: Massively upvote an entire home page's worth of <i>alternative</i> articles. This is done by groups of unrelated people who concentrate their votes by using the word "Erlang" as a flag.<p>I'm not sure this will end well.
I thought I'd hit the way back machine.<p>But really, even before why worship HN seemed really piss poor lately. Until few weeks ago I hadn't visited in long time and they types and quality of articles was way down from what I remember.<p>I've only ever been interested in about 20% of what's posted but recently I felt compelled to read only 1-2 postings a day. And the mix of articles that were uninteresting had shifted from Haskell this / circle jerk around my new startup to really poor fluff.<p>funny pics get 40 votes <a href="http://8bitb.us/why-well-never-hire-another-rockstar-programm" rel="nofollow">http://8bitb.us/why-well-never-hire-another-rockstar-program...</a><p>videos <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/</a>
i personally don't like _why, his writings, his code, his neuroses, or anything else about him. in the beginning i was willing to hold my tongue, because he was pseudo-dead, his fans were holding a eulogy of sorts, and that's hardly the time to be a critic.<p>the 15th or 20th submission on the front page was way too much, though. i am now officially supporting the backlash. bring on the erlang.
So for those erlang-knowledgable, I understand that erlang is thread-scalable more than most anything. Are there other areas that erlang is similarly more scalable?