OpenErlang Video Series: Robert Virding (Erlang Co-Creator)

We’ve spoken to some serious Erlang players over the last couple of months including massive companies such as WhatsApp and AdRoll who use Erlang, and enthusiasts and champions of tech and open source languages. We started off our celebrations with an interview with Robert Virding and Joe Armstrong - the creators of Erlang! How Erlang and its community has grown over the last 20 years is a testament to its creators, who developed the language in the Ericsson labs during the 1980s. Robert Virding needs no introduction, so let’s go straight into our interview as he speaks about WHY Erlang was made including its scalability and robustness, and where he sees the language going from here.