In terms of attracting programmers, it seems like my main reason, if noticing the traction that erlang has been gaining recently, to not decided to give erlang a shot is the fact that I would have to own my own server in order to develop anything public in it.
<br><br>Personally I have tested quite a few web based languages, all of which were little experiments which I could 'deploy' on my shared hosting. If it werent for other circumstances I almost certainly wouldnt have tested erlang.
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