What do you people make of this: http://muharem.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/erlang-vs-stackless-python-a-first-benchmark/
(web2py runs on stackless except that out server does not take advantage of its features). Massimo On Dec 3, 1:32 pm, Branko Vukelic <bg.bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know why but Java hasn't been mentioned even once. Java has > seen lots of deployment, and I imagine some huge stuff might have been > built on it, and it's open-source-ish. :) > > PHP? It's well capable of handling it's business, you know. Facebook's > front-end runs on PHP. And it's open-source. Ugly as hell, too. > > Ruby on Rails was another option, right? Has all the benefits of an > open-source project with all the benefits of the 'proven to scale' > argument? > > And finally, Erlang. Proven to massively scale in right hands, proven > ability to deal with hugely concurrent apps... If it's good enough for > Ericsson, right? I mean telecomm software: real-time, distributed, and > how many people use phones (including cells) around the world? > Facebook chat runs on it, Github has some components ported to Erlang, > and generally, wherever real-timeness is a priority, it's unbeatable. > > So, it's not .NET vs web2py. It's proven-to-scale (they gave .NET and > Rails as examples, iirc), versus web2py. You have open-source > solutions other than Python/web2py. Frankly, I'd always bet on Erlang. > But I never learn enough of it to get started. :) > > -- > Branko Vukelić > > bg.bra...@gmail.com > stu...@brankovukelic.com > > Check out my blog:http://www.brankovukelic.com/ > Check out my portfolio:http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ > Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) > I hang out on identi.ca:http://identi.ca/foxbunny > > Gimp Brushmakers Guildhttp://bit.ly/gbg-group
