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They use(d) Elixir (based on Erlang VM) [1]. WhatsApp apparently considered Erlang to be one of the reasons why they could serve such a massive userbase with a tiny team [2], which I guess is a tech advantage.

In any case, I enjoyed reading Discord's tech blogs on Elixir.

[1] https://blog.discord.com/tagged/erlang

[2] https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us...

EDIT: added reference and clarified that I don't know if they still use Elixir.

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https://discord.com/jobs/4959585002 mentions 'Rust or Elixir'. Frustratingly, for the longest time, they were 'San Fran or bust' in their hiring, which seemed like an odd thing for a company supposedly enabling communication. Guess the pandemic finally forced them to start looking for remote workers.

Are they one of the first Elixir shops to IPO?

> Are they one of the first Elixir shops to IPO?

My guess would be pagerduty is the first?

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