Keep in mind that the original point of erlang was "reliable software", not "high performance" (quotes because those are fuzzy terms) - there are many classes o

Keep in mind that the original point of erlang was "reliable software", not "high performance" (quotes because those are fuzzy terms) - there are many classes of errors that simply cannot happen in erlang that happen all the time in real-world C++ programming. You also get distributed computation for free via a well-tested VM.