'Complicated is easy, but simple is hard☝️ '

- Robert Virding, the inventor of Erlang. You can never not apply this quote to anything in software engineering.

Not to complain because it's a marvel of engineering, but Erlang is my favourite example of a technology that's so simple that anything built on it that solves real problems has to be maddeningly complicated.

There are two levels of reusability on Erlang; actor systems and functions. Communication snippets aren't reusable.
If you want an actor system to do something slightly different, you'll almost definitely have to rewrite the participants while reusing only pure logic from the old system.

When you get up to Architect level its better to be judged by all the fucking shitty code you didn’t have to write.

@lorentz well, frankly, Erlang didn't get the attention and TLC it deserved. I guess Java BS stole the show unfortunately. Erlang was 30 Years early to the game. We would need it now, but people are stuck with other approaches.