[vgatherps]

Erlang is built for easily achieving fairly low and reliable latencies, with easy distribution/concurrency primitives, and building highly reliable systems.

It’s not very good for “make packet in to packet out as fast as possible at the cost of all else”. All of the abstraction layers come at a performance cost and aren’t all useful in the first place for low latency trading systems.

[lawik]

Yeah, I think I adressed this in the article and I hope it came across. If latency is the one singular goal the design should be quite different.