update: An older Cliff Moon's talk about polyglot systems (Erlang and Scala) is available at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Building-Polyglot-Systems-with-

update: An older Cliff Moon's talk about polyglot systems (Erlang and Scala) is available at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Building-Polyglot-Systems-with-JInterface http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Building-Polyglot-Systems... Disclaimer: in spite of thinking that Akka is a very cool framework, I think it can quickly become something like Spring, that is, a humongous framework that tries to solve everybody's problems.