Playdar reduces codebase by 75% by rewriting music app in Erlang
Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - October 22, 2009
Playdar, an open-source ‘music content resolver service’ that finds music on your local computers or your friends’ computers, then streams that music to you, rewrote the code in Erlang. From the original C++ codebase, Richard Jones reduced the lines of code by 75% - from 8000 to 2000 lines of code… The code is on github and the old source is available if you want to compare the two. The biggest hurdle Richard has yet to overcome is the redistributable binary is about 10MB vs 2.5 MB for the C++ version. Does Erlang have a future in desktop applications outside of CouchDB?
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