that is much better point, but erlang gives you reliable system by default and you have to try really hard to make it crash, whereas go is just regular compiled language and such programs typically crash more easily/often.
Erlang is definitely more fault tolerant than most languages, but I've found that static typing tends to catch a lot of errors in development that would otherwise crash an application in production. The compiler won't catch every bug, and you'll still typically have to restart a crashed service periodically (via systemd, or a container orchestrator, or whatever process manager you use), but it definitely helps.
Gleam is a pretty good choice if you need type safety and you want to run on the BEAM https://gleam.run/. It still has the same performance characteristics as Erlang (which it compiles to), but at least it gives you type safety.
Gleam is a pretty good choice if you need type safety and you want to run on the BEAM https://gleam.run/. It still has the same performance characteristics as Erlang (which it compiles to), but at least it gives you type safety.