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> I personally love Erlang and would never use it for an MVP, so all your arguments are invalid.

Could anyone elaborate on the point the author was trying to make here? is it that erlang doesn't have many pre-existing libraries (for building an MVP) or is not fast enough (or something else)?

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In all likelihood it is about the relatively lesser abundance of high quality, ready to use building block in the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem vs NodeJS or RoR. In my opinion, Node and its associated ecosystem will get you to your MVP faster, but Erlang/Elixir will provide you with a more solid base to build and scale a commercial application of this kind, it's what they've been designed to do.

If I have to guess, I think the author (although loving it) is not familiar enough to produce a working product fast. I have done it several times and can confidently state that Erlang (and especially Elixir) is very viable for that.

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