Why isn’t Ericsson pushing Erlang/BEAM as a foundation for European sovereignty?

European companies are already sinking into a de facto techno-feudalism ruled by big tech, and AI is about to push them even deeper. Open source is on the brink of collapse. Soon, some people will see little value in collaborating or maintaining projects when LLMs can churn out slop endlessly. Innovation will also take a hit: since most companies will naturally default to technologies that LLMs are already heavily trained on, there will be little incentive to adopt anything new. It’s well known that European companies, especially, have a very risk-averse mindset.

Some might refuse to accept this, but given the way things are moving, not only the Erlang ecosystem but many other programming languages, libraries, and tools will slowly die out. Given all this, shouldn’t Ericsson seek funding from the EU and the Swedish government to develop, maintain, and promote Erlang as one of cornerstone of the European tech sector

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When I read this it put me in mind of this post: Tyn - A Rust microkernel that runs BEAM on bare metal (no Linux)

Not only is sovereignty a big deal, but also supply chain security. If you cut out the OS and the container orchestration, you cut out a huge chunk of the supply chain dependencies.

Back to your point, I don’t think it would be Ericsson that would be pushing this - that would be in the remit of the EEF if they choose, and have the bandwidth, to do so.

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