Timely, here's antirez on this topic when Redis was announced on HN ten years ago [0]:
> There are a lot of projects similar to Redis in Erlang actually: http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib...
> Apart from speed what I like of C for this kind of projects is the self-contain-ness and the fact that most developers that may help in the development are probably able to read/write C but not Erlang.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494903
Timely, here's antirez on this topic when Redis was announced on HN ten years ago [0]:
> There are a lot of projects similar to Redis in Erlang actually: http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distrib...
> Apart from speed what I like of C for this kind of projects is the self-contain-ness and the fact that most developers that may help in the development are probably able to read/write C but not Erlang.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494903