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Announcing Twoorl: an open source ErlyWeb-based Twitter clone
- tptacek 18y agoErlang. The Ron Paul of programming languages.
- anonym 18y agoWhat's Common Lisp? I'm thinking either Barry Goldwater or Eugene McCarthy, kind of a toss-up.
- mullr 18y agoHa! It's true! Except instead of an army of social news up-voters, it's mostly just the one guy and his blog.
- stcredzero 18y agoThe difference is that you can't benchmark Ron Paul, George Bush, Barack Obama, and John McCain. (You can look at voting records.)
- Andys 18y agoIf comparing languages was all about benchmarking, wouldn't we all be just using assembler?
- stcredzero 18y agoWell, there are function points/LOC. I guess you don't want to go only on voting records either. But they are important. Unquantifiables are important too.
- davidw 18y agoI thought that was Forth.
- sebastian 18y agoMan I wish this had been developed on django.
- yariv 18y ago1700 LOC can't be that hard to port :)
- stcredzero 18y agoYou might be able to do that with Stackless Python. But it will be a bit wordier.
- nickb 18y agoWhy use a database at all?
- jasonlbaptiste 18y agovery very cool.
- dmpayton 18y agoLooks really nice. Coincidentally, I've been working on something extremely similar the past week, though my project has a twist that I think Twitterers are going to enjoy. I'm going out of town for a few days, but hopefully I'll be able to release early next week. And it's in Django.
- josefresco 18y agohm, not working for me, I hit "Send" and nothing .... Maybe this means the start of blog postings like "Why is Twoorl Down?!?!" and "How to Fix Twoorl's Send Problem"
- yariv 18y agoTwoorl is broken in IE and FF3 I believe. I hope such blog posts start appearing. It means Twoorl will have hit prime time :)
- dant 18y agoI wonder if slashdot has got a form for this sort of thing yet ;) Your twitter architecture will fail due to: ( ) Database replication issues ( ) Inability to prevent spam (x) Immaturity of the libraries in your chosen language ...
- KirinDave 18y agoImmaturity? Erlang is far more mature and tested than most language runtimes we use. Why do people keep assuming Erlang is "new"?
- dant 18y agoIt was meant to be a lighted joke about how so many people are proposing ways to fix twitter it reminds me of slashdot a few years ago where people were trying to fix spam and they started responding to each suggestion with a list of flaws with Xs next to the ones that applied in that case. I'm not making a point about erlang, i dont really know anything about erlang, but maybe i touched a nerve so i apologise.
- jksmith 18y agoI got it. Downmodding your original post was silly.
- eelco 18y agoVery cool. Now it only needs an API, IM backend and SMS'ing ;) Twitter should hire Yariv :p
- KirinDave 18y agoSadly Twitter is now staffed by Scala guys who's enthusiasm for Scala gets in the way of their ability to consider Erlang.
- nirmal 18y agoI can't log in again after having logged out. If I am putting in the wrong password it is not notifying me in anyway. It just takes me back to the public timeline. There is no way to retrieve the password.