The vox populi is that Erlang tooling has always been lagging behind other languages’, and that when Elixir came along, it somewhat forced… (more…)

This post continues our adventures in the JIT, digging a bit deeper into the... (more…)

I recently took some time to try Gleam, the type-safe language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine. For a couple of weeks, I used it to build a little feed aggregator. These are my notes. (more…)

Erlang/OTP deployments that want to provide shell access or cluster nodes relied on something called the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (EPMD), a separate process th... (more…)

This blog post describes the state of the Erlang garbage collector in Erlang/OTP as of November 2017. The latest updates are clearly marked in each of the sections. The Erlang/OTP master branch is a moving target and some of the things may have changed by... (more…)