> just maybe you could get performance gains Not too sure about that -- Erlang/OTP-based web applications have very good performance (and transparent scaling)

> just maybe you could get performance gains Not too sure about that -- Erlang/OTP-based web applications have very good performance (and transparent scaling) with a fraction of the code of a hand-rolled C-based web application. I honestly think web applications are a place where everything but assembly is better than C.