nitrogen demo
Posted in erlang on October 17th, 2008Anyone else impressed by this rails-style nitrogen demo? This is of course, deliberately made to show the same app being built as in this classic video on rubyonrails.org What I saw when I watched was how much sense it makes to use an event-driven framework, since it naturally plays well with javascript.
Erlang is a programming language that aims to be great at making life easy for programmers to write apps that run on systems with many cores or processors. Basically, if I understand correctly, each little mini-process is not able to do much (or waste too many resources) except that it can send messages to friends when finished with the task du jour.
Anyway, long story short, I never saw a rails-style framework for erlang before this. But it makes sense, just like seaside and others. I think it just validates the rails model of using web frameworks to “bake-in” a lot of the conventions or best practices. If you really don’t like something you can change it, but otherwise sit back and enjoy the extra time you’ve saved.
