Erlang

Concurrency Is Our Thing

First appeared: 1986Designed by: Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Mike Williams

A functional language built for massively scalable soft real-time systems with high availability requirements.

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Functional

-module(hello).
-export([world/0]).

world() ->
  io:format("Hello, World!~n").

Created by Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, and Mike Williams at Ericsson in 1986. Open-sourced in 1998. Powers telecom switches and WhatsApp.

Type system: Dynamic

Package Managers

Rebar3Hex

Frameworks

OTPPhoenix (Elixir)