Erlang is great for writing high-availability, low latency server-based applications -- including web applications. What people will use it for is up to their

Erlang is great for writing high-availability, low latency server-based applications -- including web applications. What people will use it for is up to their imagination. Wings3d (http://www.wings3d.com/ http://www.wings3d.com/) is a good example of using Erlang outside of its "intended" domain. Don't forget that when Java came out, it was only "good" for writing applets...