It's not esoteric. It's a modern programing language, with 35 years behind its Virtual machine.
1 in 3 phone calls you've ever made was routed through a telephon switch written in a lang implemented in BEAM virtual machine.
WhatsApp was written in a lang implemented on the BEAM.
> I'm willing to bet that way fewer people in the company/industry understand the new codebase and can make changes to it.
It's really not hard to learn. It's not Haskell, It's not Coq, It's not Brainfuck.
You could pick up the syntax and the major semantics in a weekend.
It's not esoteric. It's a modern programing language, with 35 years behind its Virtual machine.
1 in 3 phone calls you've ever made was routed through a telephon switch written in a lang implemented in BEAM virtual machine.
WhatsApp was written in a lang implemented on the BEAM.
> I'm willing to bet that way fewer people in the company/industry understand the new codebase and can make changes to it.
It's really not hard to learn. It's not Haskell, It's not Coq, It's not Brainfuck.
You could pick up the syntax and the major semantics in a weekend.