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Fun fact: I did a co-op at Ericsson in second year. I asked my interviewer (later boss) if they used Erlang at all, and she'd never heard of it. Some of the h
by redthrowaway 13y ago
Fun fact: I did a co-op at Ericsson in second year. I asked my interviewer (later boss) if they used Erlang at all, and she'd never heard of it. Some of the hackers in the company had a limited degree of familiarity with it, but none of the PMs/managers seemed to know what it was.
- Kiro 13y agoIf you search for Erlang on their jobs page you get 17 results, most which are in China and India. In comparison Java gets 183 results. http://jobs.ericsson.com/search/?q=erlang http://jobs.ericsson.com/search/?q=erlang http://jobs.ericsson.com/search/?q=java http://jobs.ericsson.com/search/?q=java
- vq 13y agoIt was even banned internally for a couple of years and Armstrong left Ericsson as a result. I know it gets some use within Ericsson for running quickcheck tests against C-code.
- hapless 13y agoSomething Erlang fans rarely mention: only one generation of equipment used the OTP. In other words, it was stillborn.
- twistwonder 13y agoNot exactly true. As I know, it is used in all sorts of mobile network equipment, including LTE nodes.