Reddit mentions of Erlang Programming

> For stuff you can pay for, take a look at Joe Armstrong's Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World. Joe Armstrong's one of the creators of Erlang and gives a pretty good description of the language and why it was thought the way it is. Then you should read Erlang Programming from Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson. It's almost a continuation of Joe Armstrong's book in the sense that it will tell you more about Erlang's environment and how to make complete safe, reliable and scalable applications.

Personally, I highly recommend reading Francesco's book first, as I've found Joe's book to be too daunting sometimes. I don't know how to explain it better. It just seems like Francesco's experience in teaching erlang classes for 10+ years shows through his book.

I'm still in the process of reading Francesco's book, so maybe I'm biased because I'm already familiar with many things and I had no contact to erlang (except for some info/examples on erlang.org which sparked interest) prior to reading Joe's book.

Edit: Forgot to mention that some reviewers over at amazon support my thesis.

If you're going to try tackling an MMORPG and scalability is a concern, think about learning Erlang. You can go from one server up to a hundred and you won't have to appreciably change your programming model, you get access to mnesia an erlang-centric distributed database, and can write each npc as a separate cooperative task if you really want to, which lets then think more complicated thoughts over multiple timesteps more easily.


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I'm not sure what about this post merited downmodding it into oblivion. I'm hardly an Erlang zealot. In fact this is pretty much the only domain for which I would recommend using Erlang to develop.

Erlang has been used for several massively multiplayer/multiuser projects.

• It is used for facebook's chat servers.
  
• Vendetta Online rewrote their server-side logic using Erlang.
  
• Open Poker gains a great deal of scalability and robustness from Erlang.