From Python to Ruby on Rails to Erlang (is anyone at YC using Erlang?)

I know Steve Huffman of Reddit used to dream of one day switching to Erlang, but I doubt now they will.

I'm experimenting with Erlang for a hosted product we're developing. But our shipping product is mostly perl with some Java, bash, and JavaScript.

There is a web framework under development for eElang as well: http://erlyweb.org/

Erlang, like Haskell, has ideas that can be mined for non-Erlang (slash non-Haskell) languages.

Certainly - I expect that some day, there will be a "script" type language that gets a lot of what Erlang gets right with regards to concurrency.

It is not, however, an easy problem, as Erlang's real strength (IMO) is its runtime. In other words, I don't think you can just slap a few things into some other language and call it good.