02-21-2014 TECH Inside Erlang, The Rare Programming Language Behind WhatsApp’s Success Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition is winning the messaging wars thanks to an unusual programming language.

Erlang/OTP SSH, a set of libraries for the Erlang programming language, carries a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows for remote code execution and is “surprisingly easy” to exploit ...

Erlang, which powers WhatsApp and many other hot startups, is the weirdest and most powerful programming language out there. And this video proves it.

WhatsApp, which has billions of messages sent over its platform every day, has been built with the FreeBSD operating system and the Erlang programming language — two "great tools" in the eyes of ...

The Erlang/OTP SSH libraries allow developers to add SSH client and server functionality to applications written in the Erlang programming language for remote access.

Erlang/OTP SSH, a set of libraries for the Erlang programming language, carries a maximum-severity vulnerability that allows for remote code execution and is “surprisingly easy” to exploit ...