Erlang is a terrific platform, but it isn't very accessible to the wider population. Timely, here's antirez on this topic when Redis was announced on HN ten ye

Erlang is a terrific platform, but it isn't very accessible to the wider population. Timely, here's antirez on this topic when Redis was announced on HN ten years ago [0]: > There are a lot of projects similar to Redis in Erlang actually: http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/ http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib... > Apart from speed what I like of C for this kind of projects is the self-contain-ness and the fact that most developers that may help in the development are probably able to read/write C but not Erlang. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494903 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494903