Erlang

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thraxil

jdunck

bob

wilane

cstejerean

ericflo

tswicegood

beshrkayali

Sitwonade

ntoll

natevw

lethain

andrew

davidpaccoud

iamteem

Sitwon

twhitton

mallipeddi

tpherndon

ghoseb

greyfade

gtani7

LorenDavie

myles

alexsuraci

nrb

daniellindsley

ranman

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thraxil - 20 years

jdunck - 2 years

bob - 20 years

wilane - 20 years

cstejerean - 3 years

ericflo - 19 years

tswicegood - 19 years

beshrkayali - 18 years

Sitwonade - 18 years

ntoll - 18 years

natevw - 18 years

lethain - 18 years

andrew - 18 years

davidpaccoud - 18 years

iamteem - 1 years

Sitwon - 18 years

twhitton - 18 years

mallipeddi - 18 years

tpherndon - 17 years

ghoseb - 17 years

greyfade - 17 years

gtani7 - 17 years

LorenDavie - 17 years

myles - 17 years

alexsuraci - 17 years

nrb - 17 years

daniellindsley - 16 years

ranman - 16 years

yacitus - 16 years

wilane

2006–

XMPP thought it to me

bob

2006–

jdunck

2006–2007

In March 2005, I happened to pick up DDJ (which I didn't read regularly) and saw Sutter's article: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm This got me thinking about concurrency, and that lead me to Erlang. I don't think Erlang is a generally great answer to the problem, but it's very interesting. (My money is on Clojure in general.)

thraxil

2006–

tswicegood

2007–

This is my all-time favorite language. Having lightweight processes built into the language. How can you beat that? I just wish I had more reason to use it.

ericflo

2007–

cstejerean

2007–2009

ntoll

2008–

Spent a summer learning Erlang and went to a course and conference. Love the ideas but get annoyed w/syntax. What was Uncle Joe thinking..? (Prolog apparently)

natevw

2008–

Read the book over Christmas holiday, Hello Worlded a bit. Getting into CouchDB lately, so I might be back.

lethain

2008–

Been using at work for distributed high-load fault tolerant stuff. Built some personal projects with it as well. Probably my favorite language to do difficult things in. Except for text processing, where it is ok but Python is way easier.

davidpaccoud

2008–

Read Joe's book and did some helloword programming. I love how easy it is to implement parallel and distributed programs. Looking forward to apply on a real world project.

andrew

2008–

Got into Erlang after my friend sent me an article about Ericsson building super reliable applications in it. Read everything I could find on it. Wrote couple small applications. Did have a chance to use it on real life project yet.

iamteem

2008

Attempted to learn it but stopped as I wasn't using it for anything. I hope learning Haskell would revive my desire to learn Erlang.

beshrkayali

2008–

Barely touched it... Listing to remember when I first encountered it.

Sitwon

2008–

I started looking into Functional programming (on Ken's recommendation) and Erlang was the first one I picked.

twhitton

2008–

I spent a substantial time learning Erlang over Winter break a few years back. I read Programming Erlang cover to cover, wrote a bunch of small programs, and fully intended on writing robust servers with OTP. Those servers never happened, but I still love Erlang.

mallipeddi

2008–

I became increasingly curious about Erlang after Joe Armstrong's new book came out. Concurrent programming has never been this fun! Also this is my first experience with a true functional language (if you ignore the little bit of Common Lisp that I picked up during the Artificial Intelligence class).

Sitwonade

2008–

I started looking into Functional programming (on Ken's recommendation) and Erlang was the first one I picked.

LorenDavie

2009–

Dabbling in this. It's so fascinating.

tpherndon

2009–

Starting to play with Erlang. The concepts are improving my other programming efforts. I'm looking forward to using it for a real project sometime this year, 2010.

alexsuraci

2009–

Picked it up for a gigantic project (a RO server reverse-engineering/reimplementation). Works wonderfully. Nothing beats it in this domain.

gtani7

2009–

Did some spidering but the http client wasn't the greatest. Always amazed at SMP BEAM being able to spin up 100's of K's of processes.

ghoseb

2009–

greyfade

2009–

myles

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