Seems to me erlang adoption has been chugging along just fine (with or without HN posts). There are some high-profile startups using erlang: WhatsApp and I th

Seems to me erlang adoption has been chugging along just fine (with or without HN posts). There are some high-profile startups using erlang: WhatsApp and I think Facebook Chat is/was. There has been progress in cleaning up syntax, library and package management cruft that have helped ease adoption. Elixir (a new lang built on erlang) seems to be coming along well. For most types of webapps, erlang has all the batteries included. The problem is that for many mainstream types of webapps, getting v1 out the door quickly in Rails/Django works well. I think that may be part of the adoption problem...if the problem domain doesn't clearly require erlang to get v1 out the door, many will use Rails/Django and never look back.