Would you use Erlang now when there is Elixir?

[AstonJ]

I am going to reserve judgement until I’ve finished reading Programming Erlang Robert

@rvirding

There is another Erlang2 on its way but that is the Whatsapp group working on a newer statically typed erlang.

I was under the impression it was going to be some sort of bolt-on, here’s Anton’s post from another thread:

@alavrik

Hi @Aston, this is not a new language. I’d love to share more, but I don’t wan to cause confusion before we are ready to share details properly in November.

November is here so hopefully won’t be too long before the WhatsApp team share details

I wonder if it might be something like what TypeScript is to JS…