> (in an industry where successful solutions always get mimicked). This is in my opinion not the case. Just to give one example: WhatsApp managed to get to ha

> (in an industry where successful solutions always get mimicked). This is in my opinion not the case. Just to give one example: WhatsApp managed to get to half a billion users with about 60 employees by using Erlang for their infrastructure. Nevertheless, Erlang is far from being a mainstream language (even though it is used in industry). In my opinion, in what kind of infrastructure is used/mimicked, a lot of hype is involved.