[hepek]

Erlang crowd seems to `put their money where their mouth is` regarding this question.

[chetanahuja]

Remember Erlang runtime is also written in C ultimately. I would have believed claims about Erlang "never crashes" if I hadn't had to personally debug mysterious hangs in Erlang runtime (running RabbitMQ):

http://erlang.2086793.n4.nabble.com/infinite-loop-when-beam-...