🆚 Erlang vs. Scala
- 📈 Scala is much more popular than Erlang.
- 🌎 Scala is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Erlang is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
Erlang
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About
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.
Scala is an object-oriented programming language designed to improve and address the limitations of 
Java.
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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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Israel in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Brazil in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in South Africa in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- 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.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
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