# Erlang talk at London Hackspace

DevFeed: [Erlang talk at London Hackspace](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/erlang-talk-at-london-hackspace-25819.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.metabrew.com/article/erlang-talk-at-london-hackspace>)

Author: {"image"=\>"rj-headshot.jpg", "greetings"=\>nil}

Published: 2009-10-08T05:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Richard Jones](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/richard-jones.md>)

Topics: [Erlang](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/erlang.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Functional programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/functional-programming.md>), [Processes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/processes.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [distributed-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed-systems.md>), [erlang](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/erlang.md>), [functional-programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/functional-programming.md>), [hackspace](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackspace.md>), [london](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/london.md>), [messages](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/messages.md>), [mochiweb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mochiweb.md>), [playdar](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/playdar.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [recursion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/recursion.md>), [state](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/state.md>), [talk](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/talk.md>), [uncategorized](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/uncategorized.md>), [upgrade](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/upgrade.md>)

## AI overview

This article recaps an introductory Erlang talk at a London Hackspace meetup. It explains Erlang's use for scalable, reliable distributed systems and demonstrates processes, message passing, recursive state management, hot code reloading, and gen_server.

## Source excerpt

Last night I gave an "Intro to Erlang" talk at a London Hackspace meetup. I did a quick audience survey first: About 75% did "web programming" (ruby,python,php,etc). Around 30% admitted to regularly using C/C++/Java or desktop/mobile app development. Less than 10% had much experience with functional programming.