That's still really understating erlang's advantages though. Erlang is a lot easier to write working, custom concurrent and distributed systems in because of th

That's still really understating erlang's advantages though. Erlang is a lot easier to write working, custom concurrent and distributed systems in because of the design of its primitives and runtime. Erlang has a bunch of different advantes all related to controlling disparate pieces of software under one roof, so it's not easy to summarize why I love working with it in one comment. In general, I think blog posts like this do a pretty bad job of explaining it. At some point I'll publish my take and hopefully it'll reach the front page here.