Comment by chongli

When working on large, important software, crashing is not the worst thing that can happen; corrupting user data and/or allowing unauthorized access is.

The point of using the type system to do something like distinguish between sanitized and unsanitized strings is specifically to prevent these kinds of security breaches.

Erlang was designed for traditional telecom, where reliability of connections was the biggest factor, not security. I fail to see how Erlang’s approach can deal with the issue of security breaches or corrupted user data.