It's compiled to erlang bytecode, yes, but not to machine code. You do have the option of doing that, but I do believe you miss out on live updates? Not sure.

It's compiled to erlang bytecode, yes, but not to machine code. You do have the option of doing that, but I do believe you miss out on live updates? Not sure. Erlang is great though, especially Elixir, but for some use cases Go is better.