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Better string handling.

Static typing with a very convenient expression in the language.

A concurrency model that is easier to adopt if your frame of reference is concurrent C++.

A simpler, friendlier syntax, which is probably not a win if you're a veteran Erlang programmer.

Probably better tooling: native binaries, a lightning fast compiler with great error messages and testing facilities, &c.

Perhaps a more modern standard library, which is made somewhat simpler and more concise by the pragmatic adoption of a very little bit of conventional OO, without going whole hog the way Java does.

There are certainly advantages to Erlang, too!




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