That is a very lengthy reply to a very simple observation :) If you are genuinely curious why people are interested the short version is all the power of Erlang VM made available via way more conventional syntax. There are a lot of very unique properties of BEAM (Erlang VM) that are truly not available elsewhere: preemptive scheduler, per process GC (no STW crap), all the OTP goodness for dealing with failures, node transparency hard to list all the pros to be honest