Electronic Arts is using Erlang

Inspires confidence in a language when drivers for a major database are side projects released on github?<p>This is one of the main reasons I just walked away from erlang, the ratio of buzz vs its supportive environment for the real world is very high.<p>I remember the last time I had to connect to mysql from erlang I had to download a few library files from some company nice enough to release them and dump them into my projects directory.

EA is no longer using Erlang, at least none of the code related to this project. I was engineering manager for the rupture team at the tail end of our time at EA. Our entire backend was built using Erlang, and ufortunately the existing MySQL drivers were less than stable, forcing us to build our own.

EA bought Shawn Fanning's company Rupture a few years ago and they used Erlang.

Wow, a couple of years ago it would have seemed unthinkable that a company like EA would release some of their code as open source. Only very few major game companies released code back then (I can think of only id and Insomniac).