After months of development Erlang Solutions unveiled its new product, a complete e-learning platform to provide you the opportunity to learn the language right from your desk, starting from the basics to the advanced topics.

In my opinion it is a great product, and I can’t wait to try it. I have learned Erlang from the book Erlang Programming. It is written by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson and the they are the lecturers of the first course available (Erlang Express, available at a launching price of 180£), so if the book is really good and pragmatic at the right point, the e-learning will be better because of its great features.

Erlang language has known a huge growth during the last years, starting from the advent of the multi-core processors and the consequent requeset of a developing environment which provides heavy scalability and fault tollerance.

Erlang has always faced the problem from the ground and the choices made at the Ericsson during the ’80s have paid a gerat value today, in fact the language hugely simplifies the development of systems which have to scale and be high avalilable.

Until 2007 there was only a book to learn the language. During the last years some books have been published and in the future some others will come out. But it has always been difficult to really learn Erlang from your desk. Some web sites and Blog have helped a lot, and the mailing list is the best in the world, but there was the lack of something official to look when you need it. And today this lack has been filled by Erlang Solutions, which after the project tryerlang.org has continued to invest on the language and its diffusion.

At the moment Erlang Express course is already available, but in the next future we will be able to enroll to more courses. I can’t wait to increase my skills and try the platform.