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Erlang

Created by Joe Armstrong at Ericsson in 1986 for telecom switches. Designed for massive concurrency, fault tolerance, and hot code swapping via the BEAM VM. Powers WhatsApp, RabbitMQ, and telecom infrastructure worldwide.

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BEAM VM concept

Bogdan/Bjorn's Erlang Abstract Machine — the VM that runs Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, and other BEAM languages. Designed for massive concurrency (millions of lightweight processes), fault tolerance (let it crash), and hot code upgrades.