> Static typing is super critical for large projects YMMV very large project have been written in Erlang/Elixir without static typing and they've been wildly s

> Static typing is super critical for large projects YMMV very large project have been written in Erlang/Elixir without static typing and they've been wildly successfull i.e WhatsApp (based on Ejabberd), Ericsson network switches, RabbitMQ, CouchDB and a lot more, you can read about some of them here https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-using-erlang-and-why-mytopdogstatus/ https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-us... as a less knows example, an entire insurance company in my country with > 1 million customers