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Oct 15, 2019 at 19:03
Reflections on ten years of Erlang, teaching novel ideas to newcomers, and whether 'killer apps' get more contributors or just more users:
Ten Years of Erlang
Ten Years of Erlang
For my ten years in the Erlang community, I decided to cover a few topics such as hype phases and how this related to Erlang, the ladder of ideas within the language and how that can impact adoption, what changed in my decade there, and what I think Erlang still has to bring to the programming community at large.

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