I think it's also gotten a lot better since 2008 simply because concurrency has become so much more important. Multi-core chips were only just beginning to get

I think it's also gotten a lot better since 2008 simply because concurrency has become so much more important. Multi-core chips were only just beginning to get popular at the time this was written, which was really driving a new focus on concurrency, since that was seen as the only way we'd really see speed gains. Because of that focus, Erlang became more relevant, and more popularized.