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by trab 2613 days ago
Then they acquired whatsapp that was written in Erlang.
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ludwigvan 2612 days ago
And I think I had read that Whatsapp used Erlang because Facebook Chat was using Erlang and they thought Facebook knew what they were doing and decided to use the same tech. What a twist
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reducesuffering 2612 days ago
Where did you read that? I believe Whatsapp used erlang because they leveraged ejabberd [0] for XMPP. Wouldn't surprise me if this is why FB originally used Erlang for the chat servers too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejabberd
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darkr 2612 days ago
Yep. Facebook chat was originally based on ejabberd.

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20121224094022/http://cufp.galoi...

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fineoldcannibal 2612 days ago
I believe it was because of the Beluga acquisition which was in Erlang
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