Exactly that. People sediment to the most accessible technology that allows to, more or less, do the work they are after. If Erlang was the only way to solve a

Exactly that. People sediment to the most accessible technology that allows to, more or less, do the work they are after. If Erlang was the only way to solve a given problem in a decent way, people would switch to it, as, for example, people switched to Git eventually: it was different, more complex to use in some way, but it really was so much better at solving a given problem that everybody moved. Btw when we talk about Erlang, to me, is not just a matter of the language itself. How accessible, small, easy to run, the runtime of a language appears to be make for a big difference as well.