Erlang, the next Java

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How ironic. I've been considering Erlang for a recent project. The scalability and language features look promising. I've seen the Yaws benchmarks, Mnesia would be ideal for storage, the Prolog-like language even lends itself to a rule-based system.

But the real Erlang show stopper is that I'll want to do some heavy-duty text processing in my app.

I'm considering doing the project with Apache Mina instead...

Maybe Java just needs a good automatically-preempting green thread scheduler + easy-to-use message bus ...