[cdelsolar]

I forget where I read that there were estimated to be only about 1K professional Erlang coders in the world. That seems absurdly low. Does anyone believe this is actually true?

[francescoc]

Incorrect, it probably got confused with the number of Erlang developers at Ericsson. Not all use it on a daily basis, but estimates on their developers, testers and system integrators is in that range.

[jimbokun]

If true, it's astounding so few programmers wrote systems that handle such astounding amounts of data.

[stcredzero]

That's what people used to think of Symbolics Lisp machines. Customers would assume Symbolics had a team of thousands of programmers, when really it was about a dozen.

[pmarreck]

One of my favorite CS profs had one of those. I remember visiting his office hours so he could show it off to me.

I didn't do well in the class (it was a bit out of my league at the time) but I ended up in a career in software dev anyway