Erlang Ink: Late-Night Ideas Before a Launch
In the final hours before the Showyou launch, the mood in the chat turned playful. The conversation drifted to tattoos, and one participant mused that an Erlang tattoo might be a rare choice—though he wasn’t sure what it would even look like.
The idea quickly evolved into a bit of a joke. Envisioned as an icebreaker, the hypothetical ink would prompt questions like “What’s that?” followed by an explanation that Erlang is a distributed functional programming language. The punchline was a pickup line riff: “Tell me, would you and your friends like to do it... concurrently?”
Another participant added a quip about “mad tail,” and the banter closed with a lament aimed at static compilers: “Oh sorry. You’re not my... TYPE.” The transcript captures the late-night, slap-happy energy right before showtime.
