Erlang is far from "a bit too complex": it's just not. What is difficult from devs coming from the imperative world is getting recursion & bind-variables-only-

Erlang is far from "a bit too complex": it's just not. What is difficult from devs coming from the imperative world is getting recursion & bind-variables-only-once (what is commonly known as "the syntax is ugly"). Please, have a look at http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content