[leoc]

What I recall from Erlang writings and videos is that, basically, Ericsson's C++ developers didn't want their cheese moved and successfully deployed the obvious (and not obviously unreasonable) arguments about how C++ was the industry standard, as above. I think Armstrong also admitted that the Erlang crew had a bit of a cocky attitude and wasn't great at winning others over.

[adamddev1]

This reminds me a lot of Ron Garret's story of the difficulties of advocating for the use of Lisp against the industry standard C for space projects. Sounds like a lot of the exact same dynamics.

https://www.corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34524552

[AeroNotix]

> the Erlang crew had a bit of a cocky attitude

This is also pretty prevalent in the Erlang users of today.

I count myself among those, but I am hopefully not as cocky with it as I once was.

[jacquesm]

If you're cocky and you have the results to back it up then I'm ok with that.

[andrewflnr]

Morally? Yes. Strategically? Not optimal. :/