I believe the specifics were in regards to hot code reloading. Robert Virding (one of the creators of Erlang). This may be the specific quote you are rememberin

I believe the specifics were in regards to hot code reloading. Robert Virding (one of the creators of Erlang). This may be the specific quote you are remembering. "I just want to confirm what has already been mentioned a number of times in this thread: the reason for not having static typing in Erlang was the absolute need for doing dynamic code upgrades of running systems. This was an absolute requirement and if we couldn’t do it then our language/system wasn’t interesting. There aren’t many systems using it today as most try to do rolling upgrades but we didn’t have that option back then so we had to be able to upgrade a running system. Remember we are talking late 80’s early 90’s here." There is more to his comment and the thread that's worth reading: https://elixirforum.com/t/how-hard-would-it-be-to-have-a-strong-typing-system-in-elixir/27192/13 https://elixirforum.com/t/how-hard-would-it-be-to-have-a-str...