[erlang-questions] JavaScript compiler for Erlang

[Charles Forsyth]

> being said, since most Javascript development is done for the browser,
> concurrent programming isn't as big an issue for most Javascript
> programmers, ...

that's changing: most interactive environments are concurrent environments, although the support
for it in Javascript seems dismal.  (but then, it's dismal in most windowing systems, too.)
that seems to force slightly unusual approaches
(but those might anyway be interesting in themselves), such as:

MapJAX: Data Structure Abstractions for Asynchronous Web Applications
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix07/tech/myers.html