{
  "id": "language:erlang",
  "_kind": "Language",
  "_file": "domain/languages/erlang.yaml",
  "_cluster": "domain",
  "attributes": {
    "displayName": "Erlang",
    "paradigms": [
      "functional",
      "concurrent"
    ],
    "description": "Erlang is a functional, concurrent, fault-tolerant language designed at\nEricsson in the 1980s for building distributed, real-time telephony\nsystems. It runs on the BEAM virtual machine and pioneered the actor\nmodel for concurrency via lightweight processes and message passing.\n\nOTP (Open Telecom Platform) provides battle-tested abstractions:\ngen_server, supervisor trees, applications, and releases. Erlang's\n\"let it crash\" philosophy and hot code reloading are cornerstones of\nits operational model. It underpins WhatsApp, RabbitMQ, CouchDB, and\nEjabberd. Elixir is a modern, Ruby-inspired language that compiles to\nBEAM bytecode and shares the entire Erlang/OTP ecosystem.\n"
  },
  "outgoingEdges": [
    {
      "from": "language:erlang",
      "to": "domain:telecommunications",
      "kind": "applies_to",
      "attributes": {}
    },
    {
      "from": "language:erlang",
      "to": "domain:software-engineering",
      "kind": "applies_to",
      "attributes": {}
    }
  ],
  "incomingEdges": [
    {
      "from": "stack-profile:erlang-otp-telecom",
      "to": "language:erlang",
      "kind": "composed_of"
    },
    {
      "from": "tool:rabbitmq",
      "to": "language:erlang",
      "kind": "belongs_to_language"
    }
  ]
}