As a RoR developer primarily, Jose Valim's new language, Elixir, which looks ruby-esque but runs on the Erlang VM, has piqued my interest in learning more about Erlang.
Erlang has always been on the outskirts of my awareness as something that might be worth looking into, but I can't quite determine what it's best used for. I know it's behind a lot of telecom stuff, and that it powers WhatsApp, but when you're not dealing with massive scale where you need distributed computing and fault tolerance, are there still benefits?
Does Erlang make sense for a side-project web app? Or is it mostly for enterprise-level applications?
Erlang has always been on the outskirts of my awareness as something that might be worth looking into, but I can't quite determine what it's best used for. I know it's behind a lot of telecom stuff, and that it powers WhatsApp, but when you're not dealing with massive scale where you need distributed computing and fault tolerance, are there still benefits?
Does Erlang make sense for a side-project web app? Or is it mostly for enterprise-level applications?