It's of course nowhere near the ease of development of simple web pages in Django or Rails, but it's not like you need to reinvent everything from scratch either. And you gain ability to scale almost without any effort. It's a tradeoff, of course, and using Erlang for every web page you build from now on would be probably an overkill. But there are web sites which are not services yet, which could still benefit from Erlang greatly. And I think (and hope) that the initial overhead of Erlang will get smaller and smaller over time as new frameworks emerge and that someday deploying your blog on top of Erlang will become viable choice :)
> it's not like you need to reinvent everything from scratch either
No, not everything, but lots of stuff.
Recent example: I had to fix the Postgres database driver to better handle queries like
"select * from foobar where id = any($1)",
[uuid1, uuid2, uuid3]
Also, ChicagoBoss is a bit rudderless at this point in time - Evan Miller has moved on to other things, and the guy who briefly took his place has as well. My own branch of it on github seems to be the only one getting any attention lately, and that's just small fixes here and there:
I'm not sure I agree. There's https://github.com/ChicagoBoss/ChicagoBoss and quite a few other frameworks (https://github.com/ChicagoBoss/ChicagoBoss/wiki/Comparison-o...) and there's also Elixir and some frameworks for it (https://github.com/dynamo/dynamo).
It's of course nowhere near the ease of development of simple web pages in Django or Rails, but it's not like you need to reinvent everything from scratch either. And you gain ability to scale almost without any effort. It's a tradeoff, of course, and using Erlang for every web page you build from now on would be probably an overkill. But there are web sites which are not services yet, which could still benefit from Erlang greatly. And I think (and hope) that the initial overhead of Erlang will get smaller and smaller over time as new frameworks emerge and that someday deploying your blog on top of Erlang will become viable choice :)