So, I have been talking about Erlang a lot. It just seems to work so well with my thought process. And for crying out loud: the syntax is so similar to written language! Clauses? Periods at the end of statements? Semiclons? How can you not love that?
Yes, it is not useful for processing huge amounts of data and crunching numbers. What it is good for, however, is allowing a lot of connections to the application without crashing. This is why Whatsapp was able to have ~500 million users and a staff of only, what was it? Thirty-two?
Since it is multi-core, it is actually faster than node.js. Not as fast as c, but it is often compared to node. So I will just tell you: Erlang is faster. I think the only reason node.js is popular is because there are more people who already know javascript, so what is one more framework? It is easy to implement and learn node if you already know javascript.
So, here's the deal. Erlang is really good at pattern matching and sending messages, and allowing a huge number of connections to the application. Hm...what can that possibly be used for? What is it that people are now talking about? I'll give you one hint: "Refrigerator".
Ping me in the comments if you want to talk about it.
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