| ▲ | HalcyonicStorm a day ago | |
Erlang is uniquely suited to chat systems out of the box in a way that most other ecosystems aren't. Lightweight green threads via the BEAM vm, process scheduler so concurrent out of the box, immutable data structures, message passing as communication between processes. | ||
| ▲ | nradov 13 hours ago | parent [-] | |
There's nothing unique about Erlang. I have nothing against it but other companies have built messaging systems using other platforms that work as well or better than WhatsApp. | ||