[nickpsecurity]

It's a benefit I call security by economics. The bad guys focus limited energy to produce attacks with maximum ROI. Makes them aim at most popular stuff. Simply choosing less mainstream, yet high quality, tech avoids many attacks as a side effect. Erlang is currently benefiting from this. So, I list it as a side benefit over Java.

It's not a high assurance system designed from ground up for security. It's a commercial system designed for availability. It will have plenty of flaws for malware writers to find. Meanwhile, they ignore it and smash Java instead. Gotta be a weight off Erlang crowd's mind.

Truth be told, I'd be getting my codebase in secure shape during such a time. Would look higher quality when attacks appear.