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		seanhandley on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers Oh, absolutely. I framed it this way intentionally. Without a doubt the most successful Erlang apps are telecoms related.

true_religion on Oct 25, 2021 | [–]

WhatsApp is basically modern SMS. That's sort of a telecom application.

ddalex on Oct 25, 2021 | | [–]

Almost like Erlang was designed by a telecom company ....

nodejs_rulez_1 on Oct 25, 2021 | [–]

Telecoms probably funded Erlang way more than WhatsApp did.

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