Aaron Feng

There is definitely a lot of momentum behind Erlang recently and more is about to come. A few months ago Joe Armstrong released Programming in Erlang which set off the initial Erlang awareness for many people including myself. Earlier this month, Channel 9 posted two videos with Armstrong on Erlang (part1 and part2).

Now another Erlang book is in progress: Hardcore Erlang by Joel Reymont.
It is also another Pragmatic Programmers book. The inital project for the book was a poker server, but now the focus is on a stock exchange program. A quote from Reymont:

"So lets build a stock exchange! Not just any stock exchange but one running on the biggest Erlang cluster in the world. This cluster does not exist yet but can be put together on a moments notice, using Amazon EC2."

This book might just keep Erlang on the hotness list for the year of 2008.