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What about its original purpose, which was telecoms infrastructure?

Probably that's why they opted for Erlang.

Oh, absolutely.

I framed it this way intentionally. Without a doubt the most successful Erlang apps are telecoms related.

Telecoms probably funded Erlang way more than WhatsApp did.

WhatsApp is basically modern SMS. That's sort of a telecom application.

Almost like Erlang was designed by a telecom company ....

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