It&#x27;s actually better at pretty much everything because it&#x27;s functional and not OO. And because it&#x27;s designed for dealing with errors and crashes. And because it has a world class standard library that&#x27;s fast and totally consistent. And because you can&#x27;t tack on mutable state everywhere. And because who wants to spend time assigning variables manually when you have amazing pattern matching. And blocking works just fine with zero performance penalty.  And because it&#x27;s made me a better programmer having learned it.  And because of OTP&#x2F;Beam&#x2F;concurrency|&gt;. And because the first program I wrote in it (a scraper) was so fast it crashed the site I was scraping and I had to start pooling connections.