The actor model is a good idea, functional programming is a good idea... but the Erlang tooling experience is awful and many essential tools are dated. Hiring for an Erlang team is hard. Erlang projects can be an actor spaghetti.
And many people in the Erlang community really have to check their ego. If you want to assert that Erlang is the best language, trying other languages first is a good starting point.
The actor model is a good idea, functional programming is a good idea... but the Erlang tooling experience is awful and many essential tools are dated. Hiring for an Erlang team is hard. Erlang projects can be an actor spaghetti.
And many people in the Erlang community really have to check their ego. If you want to assert that Erlang is the best language, trying other languages first is a good starting point.