[com]

Well the canonical example is WhatsApp, but there are loads of other success stories if you care to look.

Small teams, big results is a characteristic that I’m very interested in, in our post-ZIRP reality.

[awesome_dude]

I'm familiar with Whatsapp and its relationship with erlang (there's RabbitMQ as well, which I always forget when asked..)

But they're the only real case studies

If I were to say "Go", people can point to big projects like Docker, Kubernetes, etcd, Googles internal use, and a few others (Uber?)

Erlang just doesn't have that sort of buy in, which is concerning because it's been around longer than Go (as a FOSS language), heck it's been around longer than Python (but it was proprietary back then)

Speaking as someone that's never used it, that's got "don't bother unless you've got an academic interest in it" written all over it

[hosh]

The ideas in Erlang keeps getting (poorly) reinvented.

So it remains a “secret” weapon and I am fine with that. Not everything have to be validated by popularity in order to be unreasonably effective.

[awesome_dude]

Sounds like haskell.