This. Erlang isn't a bare programming language like C, or even a high level, but still fundamentally simple language like Python. It isn't just an intermediar

This. Erlang isn't a bare programming language like C, or even a high level, but still fundamentally simple language like Python. It isn't just an intermediary bytecode running in a VM, like Java, that maps bytecode instructions to OS instructions. It is instead more like a Smalltalk environment or similar; an entire ecosystem running for the specific purpose of providing you a very particular kind of programming environment.