[rkhacker]

I agree with the opening sentence that there is no large company pushing or rather peddling it. But the fact that it supports FP with immutability is really a well positioned design and with little bit of practice programmers get the hang of it very fast. Lack of for loop should not be an alienating factor, according to me. With NIF one can integrate with native code easily so, a team does not have to re-write the entire codebase just because Erlang has been chosen.