> On the 4th of October 2021, Meta (former Facebook) and all of its organizations (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger) were unavailable for up to seven hours. ... This outrage shows that modern solutions must be designed resiliently to enable service provisioning during incidents.... The functional programming language Erlang provides inherent functionality to develop these resilient services.

Ironically, What's App is written in Erlang :)

That being said, it's cool project! I'm not a concurrency expert so people may disagree, but of all the paradigms I've tried, I feel the actor model has the less mental overhead.