Announcing Twoorl: an open source ErlyWeb-based Twitter clone

http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2008/05/28/announcing-twoorl-an-open-source-erlyweb-based-twitter-clone/

by foemmel • 18 years ago

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tptacek2• 18 years ago

Erlang. The Ron Paul of programming languages.

anonym2• 18 years ago

What's Common Lisp?

I'm thinking either Barry Goldwater or Eugene McCarthy, kind of a toss-up.

tptacek2• 18 years ago

Ralph Nader.

icey• 18 years ago

Let's think about it:

* Was huge in the 80s

* Had a big downturn in the 90s

* Everyone speaks fondly of it today but doesn't really want to go that way?

It's gotta be Reagan.

mullr• 18 years ago

Ha! It's true! Except instead of an army of social news up-voters, it's mostly just the one guy and his blog.

stcredzero3• 18 years ago

The difference is that you can't benchmark Ron Paul, George Bush, Barack Obama, and John McCain. (You can look at voting records.)

Andys2• 18 years ago

If comparing languages was all about benchmarking, wouldn't we all be just using assembler?

davidw• 18 years ago

I thought that was Forth.

sebastian• 18 years ago

Man I wish this had been developed on django.

yariv3• 18 years ago

1700 LOC can't be that hard to port :)

stcredzero3• 18 years ago

You might be able to do that with Stackless Python. But it will be a bit wordier.

nickb• 18 years ago

Why use a database at all?

yariv3• 18 years ago

Mostly for convenience. ErlyDB makes working with databases very easy. I didn't see a compelling reason to use any alternatives.

Although I use MySQL, I haven't used any relational features. The app doesn't do any joins.

Andys2• 18 years ago

Does it use transactions?

jasonlbaptiste• 18 years ago

very very cool.

dmpayton• 18 years ago

Looks 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• 18 years ago

hm, 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"

yariv3• 18 years ago

Twoorl is broken in IE and FF3 I believe.

I hope such blog posts start appearing. It means Twoorl will have hit prime time :)

dant2• 18 years ago

I 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
  ...

KirinDave2• 18 years ago

Immaturity? Erlang is far more mature and tested than most language runtimes we use.

Why do people keep assuming Erlang is "new"?

dant2• 18 years ago

It 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.

eelco• 18 years ago

Very cool. Now it only needs an API, IM backend and SMS'ing ;) Twitter should hire Yariv :p

KirinDave2• 18 years ago

Sadly Twitter is now staffed by Scala guys who's enthusiasm for Scala gets in the way of their ability to consider Erlang.

nirmal• 18 years ago

I 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.

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