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Erlang Alive

Erlang
KindProgramming language
Appeared1986
StatusAlive
CreatorArmstrong, Virding & Williams / Ericsson
FamilyErlang
Sourcewww.erlang.org ↗

Born as a Prolog dialect for telephone switches — let-it-crash processes and hot code loading built the most reliable platforms ever measured; WhatsApp and telecom run on it.

Influenced by Prolog
Created by Robert Virding Ericsson Joe Armstrong
Influenced Clojure Elixir

Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, and Mike Williams's Erlang (1986) — designed at Ericsson for telephone switches — made 'let it crash' a language: lightweight processes, message passing, hot code swap, and supervision trees.\n\nOTP is its framework; WhatsApp, telecoms, and RabbitMQ run on it. The actor model it popularized is the reliability standard for distributed systems.

Sources

  1. erlang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)