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by AlphaWeaver 378 days ago
Erlang's use in the telecom sphere has primarily been focused on switching, routing, and real time voice processing on the backend. Beyond just handling cellular traffic, many internet switches are written in Erlang too. It's only recently that Erlang has been used for more of the type of code that could run on the frontend. (The niceness of writing Elixir is a big part of that too.)

The primary blocker to running Erlang on mobile has been the lack of portability of the BEAM VM itself, which is why this project is so exciting!