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Erlang exists as a concurrent, distributed language with built-in distribution and active fault‑containment so failures don’t take whole systems down. It targets massive concurrency and telecom‑grade reliability but also supports web servers that handle 100,000 connections without global crashes. Elixir layers a richer library ecosystem and community on top, and several ports and languages were created for the BEAM such as LFE, LuErl and ErlLog, proving the approach works in practice.
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