Erlang/otp

Type	Programming language and platform
License	Apache License
Released	1998
Influenced	WhatsApp • RabbitMQ • CouchDB
Successors	Elixir (programming language)
Design goals	Concurrency • fault tolerance • distributed computing
Developed by	Joe Armstrong, Robert Virding, Mike Williams at Ericsson
Typical uses	AI • machine learning • cloud computing • massively parallel applications
Influenced by	Prolog • Smalltalk • ALGOL
Operating system	Cross-platform (including Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris)
Development status	Active