<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:40 AM, Nick Gerakines wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'd like to step in and say that Erlang is an awesome platform for<br>writing web services. In fact, to back that statement up, I'll let you<br>metaphorically peak into how we are using it for just that.<br><br>Here at EA we are building a pretty large web service powered by<br>Erlang to support different parts of the EA Online group. We've been<br>using tools like MochiWeb, etap (github.com/ngerakines/etap), protocol<br>buffers (github.com/ngerakines/erlang_protobuffs), dynomite<br>(github.com/cliffmoon/dynomite) (CAVEAT: it's unofficial/unimplemented<br>but we've got use cases that jive), log_roller<br>(github.com/JacobVorreuter/log_roller), ejabberd and list goes on.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>That's exactly what fess was talking about. Had you not mentioned these projects, no one would ever discover them (well, I would, but I run a Russian Erlang-related-news site, so I scour the web, blogs and mailing lists for news and bits and pieces of info)</div><div><br></div><div>Erlang should really get a repositroy that is as ubiquitous and as easy to use as Ruby's gem or Perl's CPAN. Yes, there is a lot of utter crap in those repositories, but they are valuable for the fact that you can easily search and instal necessary modules.</div><div><br></div><div>For instance, I can name at least three mutually incompatible JSON encoding/decoding libraries written for erlang (there are at least 5, I think). Definitely at least two libraries dealing with utf-8. Two OpenID projects. Two dedicated wrappers for traditional RDBMs (and a third, which is a more general ORM-style library). At least three (I think) projects that connect to Amazon's web services in one way or another. Two projects interfacing with memcached. And the list *will* grow. These are just projects I can name off the top of my head</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 21px; ">"Let a hundred flowers blossom</span>" (c) <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; line-height: 21px; ">Mao Zedong</span></div><div><br></div><div>Quite often I don't think that authors of some of these project even now that similar projects exist. Forget the users, they will *never* even discover some of them :)</div></body></html>