Is this group still alive?

[Mihai]

Hello,

I haven't seen any activity in this group for more than a year. Matter
of fact the last post was made in 2009, I believe.

Anybody in the NYC area still interested in meeting up and talking
about Erlang?

Mihai

[Rick Richardson]

Erlang wasn't hipster enough for me so I became a Haskell programmer.   I still cheer for Erlang in benchmarks though. 

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[Morgan Craft]

lol, Rick.  

I originally had interest in erlang as a performant web stack (mochiweb, nitro) and the cool nosql projects Riak / CouchDB.  But now with the growing NodeJS momentum and my preference for Javascript development I sort of put erlang on the side.  Though it is nice to know how to write erlang based map/reduce views for Couchdb or Riak if needed. 

There were some other erlang peeps I met once at a meetup and even most of them seemed more impressed with Scala over erlang.  So not sure about the future of this group.

Cheers,

M

[David Michael]

I was using Erlang for an art project, never got deep enough into it to keep at it. 

[Kevin Y. Kim]

I'm still interested in Erlang, but haven't been able to use it for anything lately.

I'm hoping to start a learning project this summer.

-kevin

[Rick Richardson]

Yea. IIRC you, me and David Michael met at a bar in union square and talked about Erlang and Scala.  But most importantly, we drank beer.

How are you liking Node.js?  I made a test site or two with Express, but, as much as I like javascript's functional nature, I can't get over its lack of type safety.

On May 10, 2011 6:09 PM, "Morgan Craft" <mga...@gmail.com> wrote:

lol, Rick.  

I originally had interest in erlang as a performant web stack (mochiweb, nitro) and the cool nosql projects Riak / CouchDB.  But now with the growing NodeJS momentum and my preference for Javascript development I sort of put erlang on the side.  Though it is nice to know how to write erlang based map/reduce views for Couchdb or Riak if needed. 

There were some other erlang peeps I met once at a meetup and even most of them seemed more impressed with Scala over erlang.  So not sure about the future of this group.

Cheers,

M

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[Morgan Craft]

Ah, yes we drank a great deal of beer, that is correct :)

I'm a fan of nodejs and express has been great thus far. We have a project coming out for our startup YCharts.com that takes our interactive javascript charts and converts them to images via nodejs/node-canvas.  Hands down it was the perfect fit for what we needed.  Though we are still primarily a django/python shop and have no plans really for any additional node projects.

I guess some may have issues with the lack of type safety, I try not to think about it, though it can be frustrating at times to debug certain nested data-structures like the JSDOM-nodejs module.  One issue that I had with nodejs was the ridiculous amount of nested callbacks, I had one instance that easily went 4-5 tiers deep with part of it streaming from an http-client.  I ended up having to write a functional-closure just to help cleanup and abstract out some of the code because it was looking ugly.  But there are several libraries emerging now to help with the nested-callback issues.  

I look forward to trying some other side projects using nodejs though, think it won't be for everyone or every site, but it will have a place in the world of web_dev.