Exactly. They probably see their ads revenue is getting saturated by now, so a subscription model is a way to keep the revenue as the same level or higher.
I bought my first NUC only few months ago, and could not be happier (maybe except that Intel has sold off....). I use it as my primary machine for programming and data analysis. I read reviews that said it's noisy little machine yet I heard its fans once or twice, in my very quiet office.
- Ericsson (they designed Erlang) is using it for its mobile products/networks. Approx 40% of all mobile traffic worldwide goes through Ericsson's infra.
- WhatsApp used/uses Erlang - again millions (billions?) of users
- Bet365 / Klarna use Erlang - millions of users
- from OSS, RabbitMQ, is written in Erlang
I could go on... Erlang has great adoption, but it's probably smaller than, e.g. Python, due to Erlang's specific applications.
I thought Armstrong wrote that Ericsson replaced Erlang with C++ or some such thing, because they didn’t want to maintain a language and wanted something more off-the-shelf.
> I'm not economist, so can someone tell me what does such high debt mean in short/long term perspective?
Not an economist either, but in the UK this means ever increasing taxes and lower quality services and infrastructure. And it's not going to change anytime soon.
