ferd did a great write-up on how Erlang approaches reliability: https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html It's more about

ferd did a great write-up on how Erlang approaches reliability: https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html It's more about assuming things will fail by default with good ways of handling it built-in at the language level. A lot of people also find its inventor's thesis enlightening. Here it is: http://ftp.nsysu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/erlang/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf http://ftp.nsysu.edu.tw/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/erlang/armst... And for those concerned, there's also at least one project to write the native functions in a safer language to reduce their bugs a bit: https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler https://github.com/hansihe/Rustler