It's mildly misleading to say Erlang was the special sauce, language specifications and runtime are so often conflated. It's really BEAM VM that's special. Ther

It's mildly misleading to say Erlang was the special sauce, language specifications and runtime are so often conflated. It's really BEAM VM that's special. There's not many other examples like BEAM languages that you could have a meaningful post either. Most languages are developer preference, and simply make some things easier than others. It didn't take me too long to get over "language churn", after finding there wasn't much for language innovation happening. Today I'm a fan of spaces like Java and C#. The languages are fine, but it's everything else that makes them so great.