[melx]

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]

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]

They tried to drop it in favor of C++ but eventually realized their mistake, IIRC.

[tguvot]

you should finish reading. they failed with replacement and went back to erlang. though it's not 100% pure erlang

[whalesalad]

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.