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I’ve been watching erlang from afar for a few years. Here’s to hoping to actually get to work with it one day.

Erlang is one of those languages that will make you a better programmer in other languages.

Fullstops.

Yes, but after using Erlang, I found it very painful to switch. Easy to get spoiled by immutability & pattern matching.

Elixir is a pretty great alternative

Gleam also seems to be a bit more approachable.