To learn Erlang is not that difficult. I think it is a bit harder to understand how to write production ready sacable OTP code. Btw. you should check out Elixir

To learn Erlang is not that difficult. I think it is a bit harder to understand how to write production ready sacable OTP code. Btw. you should check out Elixir. It is much easier to get into Elixir nowadays and many aspect (like deployments) are solved while with Erlang you need to do a bit more to get the same results. You can also just toy with Erlang without OTP (not really recommended). :)