[cyberpunk]

I'm running BEAM in production for almost 8 years and not once have I used hot code reloading. Why is that critical?

[satvikpendem]

That's literally the entire point of BEAM lol, that's one of the main reasons it was made, to patch code that breaks after letting it fail. BEAM was designed for as little downtime as possible and if you don't need that then just use another more ergonomic language than Erlang or Elixir.