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by qaq 3091 days ago
It's general purpose but well suited for web, soft real time services, distributed data processing, control plain etc. Erlang VM has unique featureset that no other platform really can match so if you need to build HA fault tolerant apps/services it's pretty good match. Coming from a different language one of the nicest things is preemptive scheduler so you don't have to worry about blocking event loop or process consuming all the CPU etc.