toast0 2 days ago

Erlang makes a lot of hard things possible, some tricky things easy, and some easy things tricky.

There's no magic fairy dust. Just a lot of things that fit together in nice ways if you use them well, and blow up in predictable ways if you have learned how to predict the system.

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davidw 2 days ago

I know that, having built several myself. Sometimes people get a bit ahead of themselves with the marketing though.