Erlang and Haskell were never really the mainstream so not much changed for them, but Perl was "the language" at one point in time. It was everywhere, and now it's basically in the same box as Cobol - people who use it are 99% maintaining some old script. Very few young people choose to learn it nowadays, and the development got super slow due to the lack of developers. Perl 7 sounded great on paper, but I doubt it will get released anytime soon. So if not dead yet, Perl is definitely dying a slow death...

Well, it's 21 century, nothing dies anymore but people. But you have to admit that it's not booming the way it deserves. I wrote in Erlang a decade ago and I thought that in ten years, surely, it will eat the world. Erlang got too many things right.

However, as people from other domains started employing its principles, Erlang's value diminished. E. g., if we now write supervisors in Python that run servers, event handlers and FSMs written in C++, and the system works fine, we don't really need Erlang.

It's only a word but the very fact the article refers to Erlang as a "coding language" and not a "programming language" is enough to give it a cheap, amateurish feel from the start IMHO.

I'd just ignore it as low quality click bait if I were you.