On: Electronic Arts is using Erlang

[pmjordan]

Wow, a couple of years ago it would have seemed unthinkable that a company like EA would release some of their code as open source. Only very few major game companies released code back then (I can think of only id and Insomniac).

[mikebabineau → pmjordan]

Some of us our trying to turn that around. My studio, EA2D, has a lot of people from the startup space, so sharing is only natural. We have a small but quickly growing list of open source projects (many more in the pipeline):

https://github.com/EA2D

We also have an engineering blog:

http://eng.ea2d.com/

And we're hiring (drop me a line, mikeb@ea2d.com):

http://ea2d.com/jobs/

[vitovito → pmjordan]

It took ages for us to get the approvals for it, but the Star Wars: The Old Republic web team can now push our patches and custom modules for Drupal back to that community, too.

[teamonkey → pmjordan]

They opened up EASTL a while back too.

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...

https://github.com/paulhodge/EASTL

[maximilianburke → teamonkey]

That's not all of EASTL, unfortunately. Much of it is still behind closed doors.

[wwarneck → pmjordan]

Jacob Vorreuter has several projects open sourced at github that we used at Rupture (Electronic Arts.)

https://github.com/jacobvorreuter (emongo, erlmc, dynamic_compile, etc.)

Jake was a long time member of the Erlang team, and a lot of side projects were influenced by pain points from our day to day work.

[cgbystrom → pmjordan]

Open source at EA: http://gpl.ea.com/