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FWIW, wechat's messaging server is in erlang. In terms of scale, it's probably bigger than whatsapp.

• kgc 7y ago
  Interesting. Source?
• mcqueenjordan 7y ago
  The opposite is true by a non trivial margin. (It doesn’t change the fact that WeChat is massive scale.) https://www.statista.com/statistics/258749/most-popular-global-mobile-messenger-apps/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/258749/most-popular-glob...
  • erk__ 7y ago
    Then the question comes if wechat and qq uses the same backend as they are owned by the same company.
  • mappu 7y ago
    The Discord number is inflated - 250mm is registered users, not MAUs. When they announced 250mm registered, they had 56mm MAUs. Telegram's 200mm is MAUs, and that number is over 1 year older than Discord's information.
• yashap 7y ago
  WhatsApp’s servers are largely written in Erlang too, right?
  • fock 7y ago
    they were ejabberd when they started up ;)
• tulunsutao 7y ago
  No, wechat's infra is most in C++[0], e.g phx*[1] [0] https://github.com/Tencent?q=wechat https://github.com/Tencent?q=wechat [1] https://github.com/Tencent?q=phx https://github.com/Tencent?q=phx