Hacker News full of Erlang articles

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.

HN's immune system is Erlang it seems.

i somehow feel like hacker news is tail-recursive, and we've been unrolled by the compiler and are now back at the top of the loop.

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?

This is old news. Why is it being posted, save for the couple of Erlang submissions at the top?

see what you started ejohn.org?

Not again...

What is erlang?

What is erlang?

What is erlang?

Downvoted for not being about Erlang.

What is erlang?