Ya know, when I first this comment on library support I thought "Well kinda..." but after a couple of hours mulling it over not so much.

Erlang has a pretty good set of standard libraries, and whatever missing is relatively easy to build yourself, by comparison.

Granted, there are some very good OS Java libraries, but there's also an awful lot of drivel - one need only fire up their profiler to verify it.

I'd say you're being quite uncharitable to Erlang.

Also remember where java started (oak) - a much more point solution than what erlang has ever been.

You can call Java (or Python, Ruby, C etc) libraries from Erlang if you really have to. I'd bet Erlang's libraries would be quite sufficient for a wide range of apps, though.

Where did you run into pain trying to use Erlang outside of telcom apps? Just curious...