I'm surprised Erlang isn't used more often. Out of the box it seems to solve a lot of the hard scaling problems many business face now. Maybe it's just too exot

I'm surprised Erlang isn't used more often. Out of the box it seems to solve a lot of the hard scaling problems many business face now. Maybe it's just too exotic. I wonder if they could have been as successful with Scala + Akka. They mention a desire for at least limited static typing at the end of the slides. In my experience well-defined, statically typed interface declarations can eliminate a lot of dumb bugs.