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title: "What is Erlang?"  
description: "What is Erlang?"  
author: "Sunil Singh"  
published: 2015-09-14  
updated: 2020-09-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22822/what-is-erlang  
category: "erlang"  
tags: ["otp", "erlang"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Erlang?

Erlang is a general purpose programming language and a runtime environment. It has built in support for concurrency, fault tolerance and distribution,soft real time,[Highly available](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability), [non-stop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime) applications,Hot swapping, where code can be changed without stopping a system. Erlang is available as an open source.

## Answers

### Answer by Sunil Singh

Erlang is a general purpose programming language and a runtime environment. It has built in support for concurrency, fault tolerance and distribution,soft real time,[Highly available](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability), [non-stop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime) applications,Hot swapping, where code can be changed without stopping a system. Erlang is available as an open source.


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