Why Erlang Matters
AFAIK, Erlang is still (as of 2016) the only distributed actor model implementation with preemptive scheduler.<p>All other major implementations (including Akka) have cooperative scheduling, i.e. forbidding blocking code in actors. Erlang allows it. This is huge.<p>And actor supervision is the best way to write reliable systems. I have wrote some code in Akka without much effort and testing (streaming market data aggregation), and it is still running with a few years uptime.