Introduction I’ve been an Erlanger since 2008 and I’m the author of a few Erlang projects of varying usefulness and popularity, including Poolboy. Poolboy is used by Basho in Riak, 2600hz in Kazoo, IRCCloud, ChicagoBoss, and other high profile projects. Get on with it… What I’m trying to say is that I’m (hopefully) not an Erlang noob, so with that context in mind I’d like to get this off my chest: programming in Erlang sucks.