The Right Tool is an interesting view into programmers’ perception of various programming languages. It appeared last year, and has in the meantime built up quite a lot of data about a lot of different languages.
The results are interesting, to say the least.
The other night, after eating a large number of shiitake mushrooms, I dreamed of implementing a cutting-edge sequel to Ultima Online entirely in the Reia programming language. Bizarre, I know (I’m not sure the Erlang virtual machine’s really the ideal target for the front-end of an MMORPG, but it makes sense for the back-end), but it made me wonder about the current status of this attempt to bring Ruby-like syntax to the Erlang world.
Much to my dismay, Reia has been discontinued, as of last week. Bugger.