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concurrency, general purpose computing, excellent developer ergonomics and tooling. Great community.

• alberth 4y ago
  > general purpose computing As a huge Erlang fan, I’m not certain I’d say “general purpose computing” is a strength of it though.
  • anko 4y ago
    server side computing is probably my take - it does handle more than that, eg. nerves but server side computing is the big win.
  • weatherlight 4y ago
    Python and Ruby are general purpose computer programing languages. Is there anything they do extremely well that erlang/elixir, can't? From the following: https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html 1 What is Erlang 1.1 In a nutshell, what is Erlang? Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.