Re: Is Lua the next big thing?

["Taj Khattra" <taj.khattra@...>]

> - erlang does have threading problems - threads are one of the only
>   portable ways on unixy systems to get non-blocking file operations,
>   and to take advantage of multi-core systems.

the erlang emulator has an async i/o thread pool and in the recent
R11B-3 release the i/o subsystem does more fine grained locking than
before (previously there was a global i/o lock): see
http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R11B-3.readme

>   AFAICT, erlang predates multi-core machines, and just doesn't take
>   advantage of them.

as of R11B it does: see
http://erlang.org/doc/doc-5.5.3/doc/highlights.html and
http://erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200607/msg00199.html