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Are Erlang engineers hard to find in India? They have a small but solid base in the UK, but the UK also hosts a few tech companies and I think a couple of the inventors and major contributors to the language, so it might just be an outlier.
From what I remember, Java engineers were everywhere in India.
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This was an issue with Python's email parser. Relevant issue : https://bugs.python.org/issue34155
If WhatsApp had a similar issue because of some 3rd party software they rely on I'm sure nobody would give them a free pass.
The only time we hear about bugs with non OS software is when there is a masssive breach, FB initially reveals it only affects a small number of people, a few weeks later quietly revised that to a few 10s of million, and then a couple of months later buried somewhere that it was actually hundreds of millions of users affected.
What do they have to hide? Internal communication is usually great source for historians and posterity. Not to mention parliamentary investigative bodies.
"The rationale behind the move is to cut reliance on foreign entities, the report said, a concern that has somehow manifested amid U.S.’s ongoing tussle with Huawei and China."
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Or maybe something like… the existing IETF standard for IM: XMPP. With plenty of implementations, support across the globe, servers that can scale up to millions of sessions.
Conversations is the only decent XMPP client, and server XEP support is a mess. Its unusable for normal people if you want to use any kind of advanced features.
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I concur, tried to adopt it at dayjob when HipChat closed, but it was impossible. Conversations IM client is alright, but we couldn't find a client for IOS that just worked. It's mission impossible. I hope they go for Matrix, like France did, but I get a feeling they'll be hit hard by NIH.
Yeah, iOS XMPP client support does seem to be the issue. Riot gets cross platform support from electron. Perhaps the world needs an electron based XMPP client... One relatively low effort path for a government might be to simply adopt something like Chatsecure and fix it.
host your own mattermost instance
What are the chances they're going to use Java instead of Erlang?
The interesting parts for any potential implementation only pertain to things like workflow, integrations to existing applications and services and regulatory requirements (export, backup etc) - from that end, Erlang is not a great option.