[daleharvey]

I would highly people learning to look at: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

Erlang really is the simplest of any serious language I know, after a little of erlang you will be pining for it when debugging some accidental misuse of globals in javascript.

Saying that no other environments will be able to provide the same isolation and elegant message passing is wrong, erlangs vm is good but it is not magical, but for now it does it best.