&gt; Also, I find Armstrong&#x27;s fanaticism grating, and am inherently distrustful of anybody who claims that their community and language has all the good ideas. Because odds are, they&#x27;re wrong.<p>You might find this[0] blog post by Armstrong interesting, wherein he comments on some things that were&#x2F;are done wrong in Erlang. I would also argue that this &#x27;fanaticism&#x27; is made to look more severe as you can find at least 4 different talks where Armstrong argues for the same things over and over.<p>In any case, Armstrong is actually very humble, which I think seems fairly obvious if you actually watch a few talks and read more than a couple of blog posts by him.<p>Could you point to something specific where you feel Armstrong misrepresents a strong side of Erlang, or is it just a general thing?<p>(Edit: Just to add, I think it should be said that the Erlang team created their favorite language and that it probably represents the most useful language in use today to them, so I don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s surprising that they&#x27;d see more good ideas there than in any other language. On top of that Armstrong is a very straight shooter, it seems, so I think this might be something to take into account.)<p>0 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joearms.github.io&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;31&#x2F;a-week-with-elixir.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;joearms.github.io&#x2F;2013&#x2F;05&#x2F;31&#x2F;a-week-with-elixir.html</a>