🆚 Erlang vs. Go
- 📈 Go is five times more popular than Erlang.
- 🌎 Go is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 Erlang is more popular in Brazil, the British Virgin Islands, and Israel.
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Erlang is a high-level functional programming language designed for building concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
It provides lightweight processes with isolated memory and asynchronous message passing, supports hot code swapping without downtime, and includes the Erlang/OTP platform with supervision trees, reusable behaviors, and a standard library for scalable applications.
Go, also known as Golang, is a high-level, statically typed, compiled programming language developed at Google for building efficient, scalable software and backend services.
It features garbage collection, fast compilation, a large standard library, and built-in concurrency using goroutines and channels based on the communicating sequential processes model, where goroutines can start with about 2 KB of stack memory and scale to handle hundreds of thousands of concurrent tasks.
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Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in France in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Platforms category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the Netherlands in the Platforms category.
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- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
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