On a related note, has anyone tried Elixir[1], which is a Ruby-like language that runs on the Erlang VM. If so, what project was that? how was your experience?
But since Jose Valim is probably my favorite developer alive, I have faith that Elixir will do for Erlang what Rails did for Ruby.
I know it sounds like I'm comparing Rails (a framework) to Elixir (a language), but what I am comparing is a way of bridging-in Joe/Jane Developer.