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Torey Heinz committed Feb 17, 2026
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- Erlang was created by Ericsson in 1986 for telecom switches. These are systems that absolutely cannot fail. The nine-nines uptime — that's 31 milliseconds of downtime per year. This isn't theoretical, this is what they achieved in production phone networks. That's the foundation Elixir is built on.
+ Erlang was created by Ericsson in 1986 for telecom switches.<br>
+ Battle-tested for <strong>40 years</strong> in phone networks, banking, and messaging.
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Arguably the best runtime ever built for this problem.<br/>
- It just had a developer experience problem...
+ It just wasn't fun to work with...
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