[BuckRogers]

Facebook, Whatsapp, almost every phone call you make for decades, and much of the backend for League of Legends were all built on Erlang.

Not that the others are unsuccessful from an engineering or financial standpoint, but the last one, Riot Games' League of Legends recently hit 1 billion in revenue. It's a fact that it's the most popular video game on Earth today.

If it didn't work or "failed to deliver on its promises"- none of these world-class, top-tier services would be where they are. To repeat myself so it sinks in. Yes. It is a fact that every phone call you make hits Erlang code somewhere.

Because people actually stand in the face of Erlang and spout this nonsense to this day... I'll take the claim one step further and will back it up if challenged as if it's not already self-evident.

Erlang has proven itself better, for a longer period of time than Java. Many have tried to replace Java. No one, and I mean no one has tried nor has anyone succeeded in replacing Erlang.

Only C rivals it for carrying the world on its shoulders.