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by kuresov 1977 days ago
FYI I believe WhatsApp was written in Erlang (Elixir uses the BEAM VM as well), but it was rewritten in C++ after Facebook bought it.
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bcrosby95 1977 days ago
Not true. Facebook Chat was written in Erlang and re-written in C++. This seems to confuse a lot of people. And in fact, Facebook is working on a statically typed version of Erlang.

https://elixirforum.com/t/facebook-is-writing-a-new-statical...

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