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0 pointsmbrock10y ago0 comments

Do you have references for the claim about telco switching?

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querulous10y ago

http://erlang.se/publications/ericsson_review_axd301_1998012...

erlang was literally developed for telephone switches

mbrockOP10y ago

That's a product from the late nineties. I have no idea how broadly it's used today.

mhotchen10y ago

A talk by Joe Armstrong I watched recently indicated that around 50% of 3G and more than that of 4G infrastructure uses Ericsson technology, specifically with swoftware written in Erlang. He made a joke about 'sweating over every bit' sent over the network and then complaining that all the apps are going crazy with their JSON.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson#Products_and_services

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rdtsc10y ago

Watch this video it explains clearly how it is used:

https://youtu.be/rQIE22e0cW8?t=662

And it is also fun!

biokoda10y ago

That was the reason Erlang was created in the first place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_%28programming_language...

mbrockOP10y ago

I know that. The last I heard was that Erlang decided to stop developing with Erlang, causing Armstrong and others to leave. I see they've reverses that decision and there are mentions of use at various mobile companies, so that's cool.

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