I met Kresten at the Erlang Factory this year - he's an incredibly talented developer and gave a great talk on the project. My sense as a relative Erlang 'outsi

I met Kresten at the Erlang Factory this year - he's an incredibly talented developer and gave a great talk on the project. My sense as a relative Erlang 'outsider' is that the Erlang folks were skeptical at first but warmed to him as the conference went on because it was clear that he was addressing a lot of the concerns that running on the JVM was impossible (tail recursion, message passing, etc)...