> Also, I find Armstrong's fanaticism grating, and am inherently distrustful of anybody who claims that their community and language has all the good ideas. Bec

> Also, I find Armstrong's fanaticism grating, and am inherently distrustful of anybody who claims that their community and language has all the good ideas. Because odds are, they're wrong. You might find this[0] blog post by Armstrong interesting, wherein he comments on some things that were/are done wrong in Erlang. I would also argue that this 'fanaticism' is made to look more severe as you can find at least 4 different talks where Armstrong argues for the same things over and over. In any case, Armstrong is actually very humble, which I think seems fairly obvious if you actually watch a few talks and read more than a couple of blog posts by him. Could you point to something specific where you feel Armstrong misrepresents a strong side of Erlang, or is it just a general thing? (Edit: Just to add, I think it should be said that the Erlang team created their favorite language and that it probably represents the most useful language in use today to them, so I don't think it's surprising that they'd see more good ideas there than in any other language. On top of that Armstrong is a very straight shooter, it seems, so I think this might be something to take into account.) 0 - http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html