Erlang vs PowerShell: What are the differences?

What is Erlang? A programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.

What is PowerShell? A task automation and configuration management framework. A command-line shell and scripting language built on .NET. Helps system administrators and power-users rapidly automate tasks that manage operating systems (Linux, macOS, and Windows) and processes.

Erlang and PowerShell are primarily classified as "Languages" and "Shells" tools respectively.

Erlang is an open source tool with 7.75K GitHub stars and 2.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Erlang's open source repository on GitHub.

WhatsApp, Heroku, and thoughtbot are some of the popular companies that use Erlang, whereas PowerShell is used by Rev.io, Nexosis, and Navitaire. Erlang has a broader approval, being mentioned in 70 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to PowerShell, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 73 developer stacks.