ChicagoBoss

Tech stack & purpose

Chicago Boss is a web MVC framework written in Erlang that supports Comet for real-time communication. Built as an alternative to Rails and Node.js frameworks, it leverages Erlang's functional programming model and asynchronous I/O to handle high traffic without performance degradation while maintaining clean, readable code. The framework includes an ORM called BossRecords, Django-style templating via ErlyDTL, support for multiple databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Riak, and others), built-in email handling, session management, and testing tools—all designed to simplify web application development in Erlang.

Community & reference links

• groups.google.com/group/chicagoboss
• CHANGELOG.md
• CODING_STANDARDS.md
• github.com/ChicagoBoss/ChicagoBoss/wiki
• www.chicagoboss.org/
• www.chicagoboss.org/tutorial.pdf
• www.erlang.org/download.html

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