[Exuma]

Well, I just started learning Erlang... hopefully this doesn't affect that D;

[oneweekwonder]

if you look at the latest release[0] there seems to be 33 contributors. While a bunch of the commits is made by Erlang/OTP(I assume this is Ericsson) it is not the 1990 anymore and a lot of tech like rabbitmq and couchdb uses erlang to reach "webscale" deployments.

[0]: https://github.com/erlang/otp/compare/OTP-20.0...master

[ramchip]

Almost all these commits are from Ericsson employees. The community did start contributing bigger things in later years (the improved unicode support is a good example), but the core team is still very central to the development, and their main bug tracker is not open.

[devmunchies]

> tech like rabbitmq and couchdb

and a whole sub-community in elixir. erlang is gonna be just fine.

[ramchip]

The article makes it sound like that team would not be affected: "However, the 14,000 employee-strong Swedish work force is to stay intact – at least all R&D engineers."

[toast0]

The current release wouldn't turn into a pumpkin, even if Ericsson stopped supporting it tomorrow. Even the older releases continue to work. :)