[incepted]

> Erlang is made by professionals with decades of experience

Who are they, besides Joe? Can you at least provide their names?

I'd really like to take a look at their credentials because beyond WhatsApp and an obscure Ericsson router from 20 years ago, there isn't much data to go by.

And there is plenty of evidence to show that C, C++, Java and more recently Go have some pretty strong success stories to justify their claim to scalability.

[SanFranManDan]

Riot Games is a pretty big one. Looking at erlangs site selecting a few:

AdRoll Facebook Chat TMobile

http://erlang.org/faq/introduction.html

Amazon SimpleDB Delicious From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1636455/where-is-erlang-u...

Also many of the companies using Riak (written in Erlang) also leverage erlang. Some pretty big names use it.

http://basho.com/about/customers/

I would say that Erlang has more than proved itself.

One aspect of it is that it is used more of an infrastructure language so not many people see it as glamorous as rushing out to the Go community to brag about their new backend. Its a lot of mature companies that have been around a while and don't really need to show off their infrastructure.

Also Elixir is gaining momentum (but still a blip) as a very viable language built on erlang.

Use what you want and what works.

[incepted]

> One aspect of it is that it is used more of an infrastructure language

Ah yes, the "dark matter" argument. It's out there but nobody can see it. You'll just have to trust me.

[thinkpad20]

You posted asking for evidence of erlang being a practical, widely-used programming language. The posts in response have provided a huge number of examples of erlang not just "in production" but critically so. And yet, you seem to be resignedly unimpressed; all of your follow-up posts seem to be in the form of shrugs and harrumphs. What more are you asking for?

[incepted]

I was asking for the names of the experts allegedly behind Erlang.

As for listing companies that use Erlang, plenty of companies use PHP and COBOL too. This doesn't say anything about whether these languages are the most adequate for the task and whether these projects wouldn't be in a better shape if written in a different language.

[querulous]

robert virding, richard o'keefe, francisco cesarini, mike williams, joe armstrong, ulf wiger, brian troutwine, fred hebert, jose vadim, steve vinoski, serge aleynikov?

[troutwine]

Aww shucks. Bless your heart.

[exclusiv]

Not disputing your claim, but CouchDB is quite an impressive effort built on Erlang.

[muhmi]

And Riak

[arthurcolle]

and Elixir

[mavelikara]

> Who are they, besides Joe? Can you at least provide their names?

One of them is here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rvirding