Erlang is at long last getting the break it deserves.

Yeah, it's got some visibility. The question is: will they be able to run with it? Erlang does some stuff really well, and other things not so well. Will it remain the right tool for a specific job, or something people also use for a variety of tasks? Despite knowing and liking Erlang, my guess is that the first is likelier to occur:<p><a href="http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/09/22/erlang" rel="nofollow">http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2007/09/22/erlang</a>

I've not tried it yet, but we have to do a particular distributed crawler app for something and it's been recommended to look at it. For me if a language is amazing at something then it would be prudent to focus on that. I often use more than one language in my projects - the best language for the particular job.

Erlang may be getting the "recognition" it deserves, but... the "break" it deserves? Really?<p>Come on guys, give Erlang a break.

I was like 'scale ordie.com', what a strange sounding site. Ohhh, scale-or-die.com.

&#62; Facebook chat is a heavy erlang user<p>Heavy? They must be going by Facebook's user base, not amount of code (the system is a hybrid of multiple languages) or even actual usage (they just launched it, I doubt everyone has switched over from IM yet, if they ever will).