[daveguy]

> but so far, Erlang has failed to deliver on most of the promises that its advocates repeatedly make.

Speaking of citations...

[incepted]

Well, Erlang is a niche programming language, isn't that evidence enough that all these claims that Erlang will save us from the multithreaded hell are vastly overblown?

We're doing multithreaded programming just fine in a lot of very varied languages.