Blog: Erlang

In this month’s episode of the Functional Futures podcast, our guest is Bernard Kolobara – the creator of Lunatic, an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly. Listen to the episode to find out how Erlang's guiding principles helped Bernard create a runtime that's fast, robust, and scalable.

Listen to our interview with Louis Pilfold, the creator of Gleam, which is a fast, friendly, and functional language for building type-safe, scalable systems that runs on BEAM.

Learn more about Erlang, a functional, concurrency-oriented programming language that powers applications like WhatsApp and WeChat.

Why do so many companies choose to use functional programming languages for their fintech products? Find the answer in this article.

Learn about OTP, a set of tools and libraries that Elixir inherits from Erlang.

What’s the one programming language we will surely hear more about in the next 5 years?

Elixir is a functional, dynamically typed language that is built on top of Erlang’s VM and compiles down to Erlang bytecode. In this article, we talk about its features and benefits.

How do old technologies become relevant dozens of years after their conception? In this article, we look into the history of Erlang and Elixir for answers.