> Thanks for your reply, I have decided to use some sort of Erlang Framwework > to develop a site that is similar in features to > Trip Advisor, we have thrown away 3 complete rewrites in PHP, my biggest > issue right now is that my developers are pushing > really hard to go with Django, and they tell me that Erlang is not well > suited to this type of project and there are no large scale > websites that use Erlang, and information I can use to prove my point would > be of great help. I do have to say that they have > no experience with Erlang but my take is that they can definitely learn it.
If you hired them to code, presumably they know what they are doing and are giving you good advice, no? For *most* new sites, the difficult problem is finding product/market fit - can we get the right mix of features/community/whatever to make it successful? This often requires rapid iteration - adding new stuff, trying new ideas, and with something like Django, or Ruby on Rails, or even PHP, you're more likely to find a lot of code to use out of the box. Where Erlang is really good is that it uses fewer resources to accomplish the same thing. One area where Erlang *really* shines is if you need to use web sockets. Those just aren't a good fit for Rails or Django. For some kinds of projects, these things are critical - for many, though, they are not. There are certainly large and well-known projects that utilize Erlang. Whatsapp. Facebook used to use it for their chat system -- David N. Welton http://www.welton.it/davidw/ http://www.dedasys.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChicagoBoss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/chicagoboss/CA%2Bb9R_uHk4o%2BhduB_Pqz3dQnhp9bgqMRbD3HDCT9jrY_EQ%3DUVA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
