Runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine, also known as the BEAM. Erlang was built for scalability and fault tolerance of telephone switches by Ericsson in the 80's.
Give this a watch, "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir". Covers a lot of what's nice about the underlying platform.
Give this a watch, "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir". Covers a lot of what's nice about the underlying platform.
https://youtu.be/JvBT4XBdoUE