Why Erlang Matters
AFAIK, Erlang is still (as of 2016) the only distributed actor model implementation with preemptive scheduler.All other major implementations (including Akka) have cooperative scheduling, i.e. forbidding blocking code in actors. Erlang allows it. This is huge.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.