Hacker News Reader

EA bought Shawn Fanning's company Rupture a few years ago and they used Erlang.

Exactly. And there has also been a position open at EA for Erlang to deal with the inherited tech:

http://erlang.2086793.n4.nabble.com/Open-Erlang-developer-po...

That link is not working anymore, but that Erlang position was still open when I left EA in December. So it was unfilled for a month shy of 2 years.

There are a number of Erlang devs out there looking for projects - I know because I run erlanginside.com and they often send me their CVs - so not filling a position like that is for some other reason than that there are no talented devs w/experience.

I was a hiring manager at Electronic Arts for a team that exclusively used Erlang. It's very hard to find Erlang talent.

Many candidates have used Erlang in an exploratory capacity and have no real experience supporting a production Erlang application under load or troubleshooting concurrency problems in a distributed system.

That said, it was great to see a lot of passion for Erlang. I enjoy writing it, and hope the language and community continue to evolve.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com