Advantages

Some of the Erlang advantages are:

• Concurrency

• Built in dispersion

    You can create processes with any node on any node.

• Error handling

    When the process breaks down, it leaves and sends a message to the process a control who can take the appropriate action - e.g. restart or end broken process and start the next one.

• Dynamic and strong typing discipline

• Support for multiprocessor systems

• Hot code upgrade

    You don't have to stop system to update code.