[lostcolony]

Ask yourself this question - "Am I doing lots of math and computationally intensive stuff"?

If so, don't use Erlang.

The corrolary is "Am I mostly passing data around, doing I/O, etc?"

If yes, Erlang is probably a reasonable choice (and a GREAT one if you're doing a lot of concurrent stuff).

So games, backend server -can- work; it just depends what it's doing. You may need to mix and match for functionality if you're doing a mix of things, and then you have to ask if it's worth the effort and translation cost if you have to jump between languages.