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Yyyy... Erlang has great adoption - examples: - Ericsson (they designed Erlang) is using it for its mobile products/networks. Approx 40% of all mobile traffic

by melx 3y ago

Yyyy... Erlang has great adoption - examples: - Ericsson (they designed Erlang) is using it for its mobile products/networks. Approx 40% of all mobile traffic worldwide goes through Ericsson's infra. - WhatsApp used/uses Erlang - again millions (billions?) of users - Bet365 / Klarna use Erlang - millions of users - from OSS, RabbitMQ, is written in Erlang I could go on... Erlang has great adoption, but it's probably smaller than, e.g. Python, due to Erlang's specific applications.

yakubin 3y ago
I thought Armstrong wrote that Ericsson replaced Erlang with C++ or some such thing, because they didn’t want to maintain a language and wanted something more off-the-shelf.
- macintux 3y ago
  They tried to drop it in favor of C++ but eventually realized their mistake, IIRC.
- tguvot 3y ago
  you should finish reading. they failed with replacement and went back to erlang. though it's not 100% pure erlang
whalesalad 3y ago
lots of users using a tool built on erlang != lots of users using erlang. in the programming community as a whole erlang/elixir are not very common. it's important to ack this distinction becuase we still have a hill to climb with spreading awareness for OTP.