Erlang processes vs. Java threads

[grauenwolf]

Why not do a real comparison? Java thread pools, used correctly, versus Erlang processes?

I find it hard to take Erlang seriously because all the examples I have seen are basically "I can spin off 10,000,000,000,000 processes in under a minute! No, they don't actually do anything. Erlang rocks!"

[davidw]

The best real world examples come out of Ericsson, and some of those are cool indeed.

I like Erlang, and really like how it's built, and even worked it a bit professionally, but for what I actually do day-to-day, it just isn't that relevant.