21. Sucks Not
Frontend Backbone
“Mainstream” Some of backend
libraries
Management
Small projects
If it ain’t 5 million hits
Medium a day, it’s not a
projects project
GUI
22. Moral of the story
funny and insightful at the same time
23. Credit where it’s due
Mad Scientist:
http://raydillon.deviantart.com/art/Mad-
Scientist-92248962
Cool hipster kids by Gaultier:
http://zippercut.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/
the-kids-are-alright/
Cricket:
http://findicons.com/icon/575/cricket
24. Credit where it’s due
Tick, cross:
http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset
%3Abasicset
Cool hipster kids by Gaultier:
http://zippercut.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/
the-kids-are-alright/
Cricket:
http://findicons.com/icon/575/cricket
Editor's Notes
The goal of this presentation was, basically, to commit suicide, since Joe Armstrong was in the audience\n
Who am I? Just a regular guy doing regular stuff\n
Joe Armstrong: With Erlang it’s very easy to do the impossible and very hard to do the easy stuff\n
Erlang is crazy weird wonderful stuff created by mad scientists to be used in crazy weird wonderful stuff created by other mad scientists. Just look at the topics at EUC\n
Whereas other languages are these hipster kids showing off their new shiny toys.\nPeople coming from these languages keep asking: “Can you do this or that?” Let’s see if we can.\n
This here is a cricket. You know, when there’s silence or some vast empty space filled, well, with emptiness and scilence, that’s when you hear the crickets. I’ll use this cricket to illustrate a point\n
How do you manage stuff in other languages? Easy\n
What about Erlang?\n
Well, there have been attempts at that in the past and currently\n
See, it’s insanely easy in some languages. For the love of all that’s good and holy, it’s even easy in PHP!\n
Obviously, it’s as easy in Erlang... Or is it?\n
You can use agner, but there some problems with it\n
Ok, what about other stuff. Perl isn’t even funny, but even Go has 5 packages. \n
Erlang is on par with them, is it not?\n
Well, if your goal is only to read EXIF data, then yes, of course\n
What about some really basic stuff?\n
What about this next great thing everyone’s talking about: the cloud? I mean, c’mon. Node.js is two years old and it has everything\n
This really goes beyond just the few things I’ve shown here. If you need something insanely cool and hardcore, someone’s doing it with Erlang. If you want something simple that everyone in other languages seems to be using, you’r out of luck.\n
I know what I’m talking about, some of this stuff is impossible even today\n
I’d say that Erlang really doesn’t suck... in some pretty serious areas. And sucks in some less serious ones\n
Really, there was no moral :) If we want Erlang to be more “mainstream”, we should really try and build some of the stuff the “hipster kids” take for granted. Obviously, I want someone else to do that :)\n
