Why Erlang?

• otp

  23 11,049 10.0 Erlang

  Erlang/OTP

  

The source for Erlang/OTP is 71.6% Erlang: https://github.com/erlang/otp - but yes, some of the lowest-level parts are written in C.

As for universality, not sure where you’re getting that. No one’s saying you should use Erlang for writing device drivers or OS kernels, or the lowest-level parts of the VM. Erlang is a medium- to high-level language, and should be evaluated as such.

• Elixir

  133 23,401 9.8 Elixir

  Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications

  

My personal experience is that Elixir, which runs on the Erlang VM, is great for web applications.

https://elixir-lang.org/

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• protoactor-go

  18 4,883 9.3 Go

  Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin

  

For me, Erlang was the ladder to functional programming. Once I’ve mastered Erlang to be able to write gossiperl (http://gossiperl.com), all immutable programming became easy. Maps, flat maps, recursion, no side effects, all became clear.

After Erlang, I’ve enjoyed Scala a lot. Especially Akka.

I do tons of golang now and when I need actors in go, I use proto.actor: https://github.com/AsynkronIT/protoactor-go.

Erlang is awesome.

• caramel

  8 1,038 0.0 OCaml

  :candy: a functional language for building type-safe, scalable, and maintainable applications

  

Somewhat related: https://caramel.run/

Ocaml on the Erlang VM!

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