# Reia: goings on of a Ruby-like language for Erlang **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 26, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reia-goings-on-of-a-ruby-like-language-for-erlang/179488 "2009-11-26T07:26:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![murfhy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@murfhy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/murfhy)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2009, 7:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/reia-goings-on-of-a-ruby-like-language-for-erlang/179488/1 "2009-11-26T07:26:44Z")
I’m the creator of a Ruby-like language for Erlang called Reia: [http://reia-lang.org/](http://reia-lang.org/) I was asked about it quite a bit at RubyConf. Erlang has a certain degree of popularity in the Ruby community, which I can only gather because Dave Thomas and the Pragmatic Programmers are responsible for a lot of the initial buzz surrounding both languages, and because the things Ruby and Erlang are good at are very different. Because of this, they’re great when used in conjunction. You may have heard of Erlang through EngineYard’s Vertebra and Nanite projects, or through Mojombo’s projects such as BERT and Ernie. Reia provides an alternate syntax to Erlang which is a lot like Ruby and hopefully not immediately hostile to potential users of the Erlang platform in the way Erlang’s traditional Prolog-like syntax happens to be. Reia also provides (or rather, will provide) a concurrent approach to object oriented programming based on the underlying concurrency primitives provided by Erlang. I recently blogged about the state of Reia, if you are curious about what’s going on with the project and where it’s headed: > **[The new Reia: now without rainbow-farting Domo-kuns](http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2009/11/new-reia-now-without-rainbow-farting.html)** > > Well, what can be said: the buzz about Reia has died down, and several people are confused about the state of the project. Is it going forw...