Wout Mertens schrieb:
Hi everyone,
I've always been worried about the fact that CouchDB runs on Erlang.
After all, the Erlang ecosystem isn't that large or well-established in
(non-telephony) enterprise settings.
That's why, when I read about Scala, my interest was piqued. Scala is
Java with adaptations to make it scale. Adaptations mostly nicked from
Erlang, no less. On top of that, Scala compiles to JVM bytecode, so that
it's "entreprise-compatible". In our company, the preferred application
is Java based, because the deployment teams understand it and know how
to manage JVM farms.
So I began to wonder if it wouldn't be better for CouchDB to be written
in Scala.
Here's a link I found comparing Erlang and Scala:
http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/05/18/erlang-vs-scala/
After reading the blogpost I was thinking "maybe not" but after the
comments, I'm not so sure any more.
So I'm wondering what everybody here thinks.
Wout.
Personally I would love to have couchdb running on java, even if teh
performance sucks badly. It would be too sweet to have couchdb
applications that run via java webstart.
Regards,
Sven Helmberger
