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by Scarbutt 2673 days ago
The Fortnite Official server has exceeded 100,000 concurrent users, Discord itself is way past that 5M concurrent number, we're now using Rust in certain places to make Elixir go faster.

Would this have been avoided have you started with golang or the JVM ?
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jhgg 2673 days ago
Who knows? We would have had a whole other set of issues - of which golang and JVM struggle at. There is more discussion in the rest of the comments in this post. Beam/OTP provide a fantastic foundation for building distributed soft real time systems unlike any other programming language/framework/ecosystem provides.
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Insanity 2673 days ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted - it seems like a genuine (good) question. Perhaps using Go could have solved the need for Rust, perhaps not.
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