“With Erlang you could build a messaging app with many connected users and not worry about how they communicate,” says Chad DePue, CTO of Whisper, an app for anonymous posts that has opted to use the ...

Erlang is one of those early languages which were based on the functional programming paradigm which was developed back in somewhere 1986 internally within Ericsson for proprietary use. The immediate ...

Building scalable, distributed and reliable systems is trivial in Erlang. This can be a hard pill to swallow for many enterprise developers. Erlang is a dynamically typed functional language and Java ...

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Ericsson designed the first version of Erlang 20 years ago Erlang users outside telecoms include WhatsApp Code repository hosted on GitHub as open source The name is a syllabic abbreviation of ...

Erlang is a hip functional language, developed by Joe Armstrong of Ericsson in the 1980s that explicitly facilitates concurrent programming by enabling distinct parallel processes (as opposed to ...

In this extensive post, Computer Scientist and blogger JLouis goes the extra mile to dissect the Erlang programming language, urging the reader to go in with the realization that concurrency and ...

WhatsApp, the instant messaging service bought by Facebook last year for $19 billion (£13 billion), now has 900 million monthly users globally. The cofounders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, don't often ...

Because exploit code for a “critical” vulnerability in Erlang/OTP SSH is in circulation, attacks could occur in the near future. If attackers successfully exploit the vulnerability, they can ...