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by mbrock 3769 days ago
Do you have references for the claim about telco switching?
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http://erlang.se/publications/ericsson_review_axd301_1998012...

erlang was literally developed for telephone switches

That's a product from the late nineties. I have no idea how broadly it's used today.
A talk by Joe Armstrong I watched recently indicated that around 50% of 3G and more than that of 4G infrastructure uses Ericsson technology, specifically with swoftware written in Erlang. He made a joke about 'sweating over every bit' sent over the network and then complaining that all the apps are going crazy with their JSON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services

Erlang is mentioned only once in this entire article, and it's in the "See also" section. Nothing in this Wikipedia article supports the claim that Ericsson uses Erlang at all.
Sorry, you're right. I was more indicating at the fact that they power a huge amount of the infrastructure of mobile and telecoms.

Here's some sources that indicate that Erlang is still in daily use at Ericsson:

http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/publications/revie...

http://www.ericsson.com/news/141204-inside-erlang-creator-jo...

I'm sorry I can't find the exact video I saw from Joe, but he's generally quite proud of the reach of Erlang so you'll find him stating the facts about how much of the mobile and telecoms infrastructure it supports in a few of his videos! I hope that helps.

Watch this video it explains clearly how it is used:

https://youtu.be/rQIE22e0cW8?t=662

And it is also fun!

That was the reason Erlang was created in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language...
I know that. The last I heard was that Erlang decided to stop developing with Erlang, causing Armstrong and others to leave. I see they've reverses that decision and there are mentions of use at various mobile companies, so that's cool.