This struck me when I was watching a talk about some web company talking about their scaling issues with their erlang stack. You could have replaced erlang with

This struck me when I was watching a talk about some web company talking about their scaling issues with their erlang stack. You could have replaced erlang with django or rails and it would have made zero difference. People are essentially making the very same mistakes the first startup I worked at 6 years ago doing php was doing. That being said, I really like Erlang, and I can think of a few problem domains where Erlang would indeed be a really good fit. But serving HTML in my opinion is so trivial that all the fancy stuff that Erlang offers matters little in that regard.