This afternoon I had a great conversation with a few of my friends that are starting some projects and are interested in using Erlang at the core of them. I’m not going to get too much into what the projects are, but they are around working with Microsoft technologies.
That makes Erlang a wonderful language to use especially when looking at Active Directory, which is based on LDAP. Erlang has a built in ASN.1 library that the really hard work of working with LDAP out of the picture. I know there are a few other people out there working on similar projects.
This conversation also had me thinking about integrating Outlook more tightly into ErlMail. To that end I may try to write a set of MAPI server/client modules into ErlMail. This will be a low priority task, unless I get a lot of interest in it. Plus I’m way behind on the IMAP server right now anyway and I have a few other project that I want to spend my programming time on before this.
I always get great feedback via email when I put up posts like this and it helps me keep focused on what others think are good technologies to have written in Erlang. So if you have any thoughts about this let me know.