This comment reinforces my perception that erlang is less popular than it should be because engineers are not as strong as they should be.<p>The advantages of erlang, over basically every other language, make the &quot;cost&quot; of learning the syntax very low relative to the value of the erlang language.<p>If you think of yourself as a good engineer, you shouldn&#x27;t be following the crowd of blubs who use languages simply because they don&#x27;t tax their brain to learn them.