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		rjurney on July 3, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using Erlang, CouchDB and RabbitMQ at Smarkets bet... I wonder what Twitter would have already become if they had early adopted an architecture like this? I'm not trolling. Erlang is clearly ideal for this kind of thing. I wonder what kind of advantage it will give them?

davidw on July 3, 2009 [–]

They apparently tried it in a moment of desperation, but got scared by the "weird syntax". Or so I recall seeing in a slide somewhere...

rjurney on July 3, 2009 | [–]

I like Erlang, and can read it... but not write it much. And the syntax scares me too :)

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