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Sure, but I interpreted OP's statement as saying "used in practice" as in "used in the real world". Pretty sure that Erlang would barely register as a blip on
by incepted 11y ago
Sure, but I interpreted OP's statement as saying "used in practice" as in "used in the real world".
Pretty sure that Erlang would barely register as a blip on such a chart.
- abiox 11y agoRabbitMQ and CouchDB are written Erlang; Much of Ericsson's telephony infrastructure runs it; various companies in their industry like TMobile and Motorola use it.
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- im_down_w_otp 11y agoAlmost all the successful non-Google ad networks and exchanges are written in Erlang, Goldman Sachs HFT platform is written in Erlang, several massive scale game platform backends are written in Erlang, several international "national net" banking switches are written in Erlang, a huge chunk of the global land-line and mobile telco switching infrastructure is written in Erlang, Heroku's control plane is written in Erlang, GitHub's RPC backplane is written in Erlang, Amazon SimpleDB is written in Erlang, Bet365's high-scale betting platform is written in Erlang, Pinterest is migrating services to Elixir (rooted in Erlang). There's a ton of stuff written in Erlang out there. A lot of really core infrastructure services that have to just run and run and run. It's not particularly trendy, but it gets shit done, and it does so with a quiet dignity. :-)
- mbrock 11y agoDo you have references for the claim about telco switching?
- querulous 11y agohttp://erlang.se/publications/ericsson_review_axd301_1998012.pdf http://erlang.se/publications/ericsson_review_axd301_1998012... erlang was literally developed for telephone switches
- mbrock 11y agoThat's a product from the late nineties. I have no idea how broadly it's used today.
- mhotchen 11y agoA talk by Joe Armstrong I watched recently indicated that around 50% of 3G and more than that of 4G infrastructure uses Ericsson technology, specifically with swoftware written in Erlang. He made a joke about 'sweating over every bit' sent over the network and then complaining that all the apps are going crazy with their JSON. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services
- incepted 11y agoErlang is mentioned only once in this entire article, and it's in the "See also" section. Nothing in this Wikipedia article supports the claim that Ericsson uses Erlang at all.
- mhotchen 11y agoSorry, you're right. I was more indicating at the fact that they power a huge amount of the infrastructure of mobile and telecoms. Here's some sources that indicate that Erlang is still in daily use at Ericsson: http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/publications/review/2000_03/files/2000034.pdf http://www.ericsson.com/ericsson/corpinfo/publications/revie... http://www.ericsson.com/news/141204-inside-erlang-creator-joe-armstrong-tells-his-story_244099435_c http://www.ericsson.com/news/141204-inside-erlang-creator-jo... I'm sorry I can't find the exact video I saw from Joe, but he's generally quite proud of the reach of Erlang so you'll find him stating the facts about how much of the mobile and telecoms infrastructure it supports in a few of his videos! I hope that helps.
- biokoda 11y agoThat was the reason Erlang was created in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language...
- mbrock 11y agoI know that. The last I heard was that Erlang decided to stop developing with Erlang, causing Armstrong and others to leave. I see they've reverses that decision and there are mentions of use at various mobile companies, so that's cool.
- rdtsc 11y agoWatch this video it explains clearly how it is used: https://youtu.be/rQIE22e0cW8?t=662 https://youtu.be/rQIE22e0cW8?t=662 And it is also fun!