New 616-page book: Build It with Nitrogen: the Fast-Off-the-Block Erlang Web Framework
Hope springs eternal. I had an ambitious web project at top of my todo list so was looking for a web stack that scaled. I discovered Erlang — developed for the telecomm industry so by design it’s highly reliable and scalable. Through the terrific Erlang community I discovered Nitrogen, the Erlang web framework. Cool thing is that Nitrogen is open source and I didn’t need to know JavaScript to do amazing things. I ended up co-authoring the definitive book with Nitrogen project lead Jesse Gumm.
Read the first three chapters free:
Love it. Erlang is so underrated as a language. It's great to have things like this to build more awareness.
Thanks, Flurly,
I don’t consider myself a professional programmer, though have experience with Basic, Forth, ColdFusion, and a bit of Python. As a writer I think of the computer as a powerful medium of human communication; a computer language as a means to an end. Joe Armstrong’s book Programming Erlang was a easy entry into Erlang for me. The Erlang community was and is welcoming and gracious. I’m lazy so didn’t want to learn JavaScript. Thus, Erlang and Nitrogen are perfect for my purposes. I hope Build It with Nitrogen will help folks realize their own dreams; build truly great web applications.