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		d3nj4l on Oct 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers Discord was written in Elixir! https://blog.discord.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b

mewpmewp2 on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

Does it mean it's technically also based on Erlang?

avianlyric on Oct 25, 2021 | [–]

It runs on the Erlang BEAM virtual machine. But it’s very much it’s own language, and looks and feels very different to Erlang.

I would say the Elxir is based on Erlang about as much as Scala is based on Java.

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