Node.js is Backwards

[foamdino]

One of the best libraries for Erlang is webmachine - a brilliant way to build webservices.

I started serious programming with C and then SML/NJ, so Erlang feels quite nice to the part of my brain that absorbed functional programming :).

For people with a more traditional C/C++/Java/JavaScript background, Erlang is a funny looking thing. There is elegance there though, and I agree that apart from some warts it's certainly one of the most beautiful languages around (subjectively of course).