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I think it is because with Erlang you get Beam and it is the real treasure of the Erlang ecosystem. It not only manifest the philosophy of Erlang well but, more

I think it is because with Erlang you get Beam and it is the real treasure of the Erlang ecosystem. It not only manifest the philosophy of Erlang well but, more specifically, provides a battle tested run-time for concurrent applications that you cannot get with C++ as you have to (re-)write that concurrent run-time each time.

snowAbstraction 7y ago
Exactly. I worked at a few smaller but established FinTech companies delivery Trading Systems to banks, hedge funds, etc that had built their own unique systems written in C++ for concurrent applications. These systems were battle tested but they were not open-sourced and anyway they could not easily be re-purposed.