Adios Java , Adios Erlang

Don't get it wrong from the title, I did not actually ditched java but turns out I have to look elsewhere , because Java simply do not cut this time, let me walk through the situation, Java is a great language , personally I prefer python and bash for scripting and none of my script goes more than 20 lines so it is not really a benchmark but recently I got a chance to modify a script written in Java, or must I say optimize it, I did my homework and look for several approaches, since it is a thread based application some of the solution I found is

1. Use real time system - this does not work out because Ubuntu 10.04 real time kernel doesnot play nice and I am too egoist to go for previous version.
2. Increase hardware - since my real options are only in the clouds hnce effectively VM which generally zeroed the effect of increasing hardware so this also fell off.
3. Use some real skills -- I did some digging around and increase the performance of script by remove just 2 characters, and that did it, it was flying high in the test environment and I thought I finished or did I...

There lies a twist , it turns out Java Have a limit on number of threads it can create, before running out of memory or some other bullshit limit and believe me I tried really hard to figure ut optimization , even remove all the code from the thread and simply putting it to sleep, but I hit the wall, 5000 threads, 5092 to be precise.
and in production my script fails.

so the obvious solution was to run script simultaneously in several JVMs which would require several machines or at least one super- machine , or change the language, and believe me I didn't like this, but this was a special case , so I turned to option of using other language , few options are

• C or NPLT which is essentially C-- this was good, really awesome , great performance promises like spawning 100000 threads in 2s ,but really it is C, memory management etc., so I put it as a last resort.
• erlang - This comes out to be seemingly more viable solution , since it is more high level, a language of new paradigm so perfect for learning and also tailor made for concurrency.

naturally Erlang is the choice , but it seems to have a huge learning curve, everything is different but still , it seems far more elegant than C, and promises to create greater than 32000 threads in action with no seemingly achievable upper limit. let's hope this goes well.