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>>If you're comparing it with WhatsApp Worth noting WhatsApp was written in Erlang. Relevant article: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-millio

>>If you're comparing it with WhatsApp Worth noting WhatsApp was written in Erlang. Relevant article: https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us... So it seems choosing the right technology can have a massive impact on a company's trajectory and chance of success.

williamscales 9y ago
They definitely attribute a lot of their early success to this choice. It seems reasonable to me that choosing a tool developed to create modern real time communications software is a pretty good idea ;)