Erlang
AKA BEAM (often used to refer to the VM)
Summary
Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language designed for building massively scalable distributed systems. It features built-in support for concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance, with a focus on high availability.
Paradigms
functional, concurrent, distributed, declarative
Domains
distributed system, telecommunications, real-time computing, network programming, blockchain
Key Features
pattern matching, hot reload, REPL, native FFI
Typing
dynamic system, structural typing, strong typing, partial inference, runtime checking, conservative type coercion, optional type annotations
Compilation
compiled, interpreted with JIT compilation
Influenced By
Prolog, ML, Smalltalk, Lisp, Ada, CHILL, Modula-2, Miranda, PLEX
Ratings
File extensions
erl, app, app.src, es, escript, hrl, xrl, yrl
External Links
| Status | active |
| Type | programming |
| Created | 1986 |
| Designed by |
Joe Armstrong Robert Virding Mike Williams |
| Developed by | Ericsson |
| PyPL Index | N/A |
| TIOBE Index | #51-100 |
| GitHub rank | #62 |