[lifeisstillgood]

Puuuuhhhleeeeaaaseeee can I commute to work in a Bugatti Veyron??

Please please please :-)

Edit: sorry unable to resist. However I am on Joe Armstrongs side - I would far rather make a decent living doing fun Erlang work than be in a java shop making the next generation of POS

Added to that I think not using Erlang or some STM based concurrency language must be an informed decision - if the CTO of big bank says we have tried two pilot projects rewriting the ATM network in Erlang and the projected costs do not add up, fine. If he says "I have two hundred java coders, we aren't moving". I don't think that's valid

[InclinedPlane]

Of course, most people would like to be working on race cars, or spacecraft, or fighter jets, but that just isn't an option for every body. And it's not as though there's no in between. The choice isn't just between some soul sucking blub-job in the enterprise trenches or using Erlang, there are lots of languages, lots of development patterns, lots of products.

[lifeisstillgood]

I would agree, but with the proviso that the spectrum between soul-sucking and cool-space-tech is not a nice linear graph - in my experience its step-gradients, some companies are entirely on one level, and then they have to make a real effort to climb to the next (i.e. From manual deploys to CI)

Its actually a consultancy opportunity (I hope :-0)