"relentlessly productive" really resonates with my view of Erlang/OTP. I do Elixir which sits on top of it but that remains. I think Erlang is an uncommon lang

"relentlessly productive" really resonates with my view of Erlang/OTP. I do Elixir which sits on top of it but that remains. I think Erlang is an uncommon language in that it seems to be foundationally constructed to build things. The FP isn't a philosophical experiment or a research project so much as a necessity to wrangle state reliably in distributed actors. It is a language and probably most importantly a runtime/VM that was born out of industry and it has some very powerful properties. I keep returning to this on beamrad.io, I'm impressed by the pragmatism in Erlang. And I think the also very pragmatic but much more marketing-savy and dev experience-focused Ruby culture feeding into Elixir is a pretty sweet mix.