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Burbas.se is a personal blog at burbas.se about programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Erlang/OTP on android”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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4mentions?
4HN people?
2010–2011first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts about running Erlang on Android, including a port of Erlang/OTP and an APK download page. Commenters mention them as references, not as praised writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Erlang/OTP on android
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-12-20

What Hacker News says?

  1. this reminds me of the effort to port erlang to android. both projects are of questionable utility, but so is climbing mount everest http://www.burbas.se/artiklar/erlang-for-the-android-plattfo...

    Comment linking /artiklar/erlang-for-the-android-plattform/

    on “Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM”
  2. Submitted Erlang/OTP on android as a story · 45 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've seen a couple of references to the fact that Erlang does, in fact, run on Android, including one here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1518686 and the download page :) http://www.burbas.se/artiklar/erlang-for-the-android-plattfo... and https://github.com/downloads/esl/otp/Erlang.apk

    Comment linking /artiklar/erlang-for-the-android-plattform/

    on “Erlang/OTP on android”
  4. Submitted Run Erlang on your Apple iOS device as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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