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Where did you read that? I believe Whatsapp used erlang because they leveraged ejabberd [0] for XMPP. Wouldn't surprise me if this is why FB originally used Erl
by reducesuffering 8y ago
Where did you read that? I believe Whatsapp used erlang because they leveraged ejabberd [0] for XMPP. Wouldn't surprise me if this is why FB originally used Erlang for the chat servers too.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejabberd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejabberd
- darkr 8y agoYep. Facebook chat was originally based on ejabberd. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20121224094022/http://cufp.galois.com/2009/slides/PiroLetuchy.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20121224094022/http://cufp.galoi...
- fineoldcannibal 8y agoI believe it was because of the Beluga acquisition which was in Erlang