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Comment on Ask HN: What have you built with Erlang?

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Simple stuff, but:

- An IRC bot -- great fit for the language

- A URL shortener service (three times) -- first on Yaws, then on Nitrogen, then on ChicagoBoss (Hi EvanMiller!)

Erlang is the most fun I've ever had writing code. While a lot of that is the functional language aspect, I find it an extremely intuitive language at least at a low level (once you get past the 'there are 4 ways to end a line?!?!' stage). I'm still getting used to thinking through bigger problems in an Erlang way, but thats more a function of my brain than the language.

I think Erlang gets a lot of unfair knocks given it's pigeonholed reputation for 'concurrency and fault tolerance'. Certainly it has it's limitations (libraries), but generally, I think its a pretty well-rounded general purpose language.

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