Brit Gardner’s Site

all the code that’s fit to printf()

Yariv, one of the biggest evangelists and contributors to the erlang community, hacked out a twitter clone in erlang over the course of 2 or 3 days.  Although he tries to back out of an ‘Erlang will kick Rails ass at scaling’ argument, I would like to see his app at a scale equal to twitter and see which one wins.  My money is on Erlang.

Some of the reasons he wrote Twoorl:

The reasons I wrote Twoorl are:

- ErlyWeb needs more open source apps showing how to use the framework. It’s hard to pick how to use the framework just from the API docs.
- Twitter is awesome. Once you start using it, it becomes addictive. I thought it would be fun to write my own.
- Twitter is very popular, but I don’t know of any open source clones. I figured somebody may actually want one!
- Some people think Erlang isn’t a good language for building webapps. I like to prove them wrong