Webmachine is amazing. Why doesn't .Net or Java have something this elegant?
Have a look. I was impressed by the clean design, but I was blown away by the debugger described in the last ten minutes. This is an open source project in Erlang, the high concurrency functional language created by Joe Armstrong at Ericsson. As noted in the talk, Webmachine is a high quality component to include in a web framework, like Mochiweb. Mochiweb itself is interesting: it is an Erlang framework for high concurrency web applications. When serving static content, it has been compared with yaws and nginx in a deathmatch on Joes Blog! Richard Jones is contemplating a Million User Comet App. Erlang is turning into a pretty cool language for web apps with high concurrency.
I wonder if there is any attempt to write an equivalent in Scala, a high concurrency functional language for the JVM? I have got to get up to speed with Scala and Lift. There is a lot going on here...
