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Re:OTP 23 by gmfawcett on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:34PM (#23170105)
Fair point. Big frameworks and dogma go hand in hand, and I suppose Erlang without OTP is at least as practical as any other language.

I wonder though if Erlang might have been a footnote in programming history if it weren't for the mindshare that OTP generated. "Simple functional language" is attractive, but "simple functional language with world-class platform" turned out to be a game-changer.

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Re:OTP 23 by pdimitar on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:59PM (#23171133)
> I wonder though if Erlang might have been a footnote in programming history if it weren't for the mindshare that OTP generated.

It absolutely would be. There's plenty of "simple FP languages" out there. OTP is very definitely the main selling point of Erlang, and nowadays of Elixir as well.

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