A Beginners Guide to Erlang

The post does link to Learn You Some Erlang, but does so with what looks like an associate/affiliate link to amazon. I do prefer people to go to the home page, <a href="http://learnyousomeerlang.com/" rel="nofollow">http://learnyousomeerlang.com/</a> which also contains the entire thing visible for free online.

I'm currently reading "Programming Erlang" by Joe Amstrong and I'm loving it.<p>Buy the second edition beta ebook here - <a href="http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang2/programming-erlang" rel="nofollow">http://pragprog.com/book/jaerlang2/programming-erlang</a>. The new edition highlights features that are in the yet-to-be-released versions of Erlang. Also has content on how to use tools like rebar.<p>There's also Chicago Boss, which is a cool web framework. If you are coming from Rails, you'll feel right at home. <a href="https://github.com/evanmiller/ChicagoBoss/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/evanmiller/ChicagoBoss/</a><p>The IRC channels: #erlang, #chicagoboss #ninenines (for Cowboy, Ranch, etc) on Freenode.

erlang is not a difficult language to learn IMO. What I, as a beginner to erlang from other languages, would like to see is a lot more solid libraries and sample code for strings rather than bytes.

This is a great page, but it assumes that I (the reader) am already certain I want to invest time learning Erlang. I think it would be valuable if the author would open the page with a brief paragraph on why it's worth investing the time to learn Erlang and some of its tradeoffs vs other languages.