I see your point and yes I know that Erlang has decades of production use and shines in lots of infrastructure applications, game servers, etc. I was mainly referring to the buzz generated quite a few years ago when the first Pragmatic Programmer books on Erlang came out. There were a lot of startups testing the waters with Erlang but I just got the impression that the language didn't quite take off despite the merits touted about Erlang's strength as a functional language and the built-in handling of concurrency.

This is all of course compared to the current buzz surrounding Elixir/Phoenix. I didn't intend to dismiss Erlang's amazing track record and applications to the domains where it continues to shine.

This is roughly the time span I was referring to when I said "buzz":

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=erlang&sort=byPopularity&prefi...