Hey fellow devs, I've been wondering lately if Erlang has finally broken out of its traditional niche and become a viable choice for large-scale projects, given its reputation for handling high concurrency and fault-tolerance. Has anyone else noticed the renewed interest in Erlang, or is it still mostly used for its original use cases like distributed systems and telecomm apps?
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"Erlang for Scalability - Has it Outgrown its Niche?"
- Thread starter krasy_ol
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"Yea, Erlang's been around for a while and it's still a beast when it comes to concurrency and scalability. I think it's definitely worth considering for high-traffic or high-availability systems, especially in financial services where reliability is key. Anyone have any recent experience with Erlang in production?"
"Been using Erlang for years in my side projects and it's still a beast when it comes to handling concurrent requests and high traffic. The OTP framework is still unmatched, imho. Not sure if it's mainstream enough, but it's definitely outgrown its niche in my book."
"Been seeing some of my dev friends experimenting with Erlang for high-availability use cases, especially in the blockchain space. From what I've seen, its ability to handle concurrent connections and process parallel transactions is pretty impressive, but it's still a steep learning curve."