Using Nicer Programming Languages at Work

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Case studies give concrete effects: WhatsApp runs Erlang with 50 engineers supporting 900 million users, Ericsson reports Erlang systems achieving “nine nines” uptime, and a Go migration cuts one company’s fleet from 30 servers down to two. Elm yields ~250,000 lines with near-zero runtime exceptions versus ~60,000 JavaScript crashes in the same period, and Facebook ports Messenger to ReasonML and sees only ten bugs in a year. Onboarding proves fast—beginners from bootcamps become productive in a week.

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1. 0:00Introduction to adopting
2. 2:57The benefits of reliability
3. 7:08Productivity and code safety
4. 11:18Reducing operational costs
5. 14:40Addressing adoption concerns
6. 19:23Risk management strategies
7. 27:26Hiring and team morale
8. 32:58Onboarding new developers
9. 36:38Conclusion and summary

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