Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger
For anyone who's interested in Erlang (or functional programming in general) but thinks it looks a bit daunting, check out Elixir.It's a new language which has just turned 1.0, has Ruby/Python like syntax and runs on the Erlang OTP VM (kind of like how clojure runs on the JVM). This gives you all of the amazing concurrent power which has helped the Heroku guys here.Check it out!: http://elixir-lang.org/