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Agreed. After reading enough about it I’ve become convinced that there are only 2 different platforms in the world. OTP/BEAM and everything else.

Every other language that I’ve studied seems to just cope with the same problems in slightly different ways.

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Erlang/OTP/BEAM are so unusual within the computing world: highly opinionated components that, thanks to their constraints, are keenly complementary and optimized for each other.

No kitchen sink language here: play by their rules or choose a different environment.

Contrarily, this is exactly what makes Unix environments so powerful (and wonderful). The "Unix Philosophy" is typically considered unopinionated (in the "let the user choose" sense), but I'd say that it's more like it has a few very strong yet well-chosen opinions that produce a highly integrated universe where all sorts of different tools just work.

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