I’ve always considered Erlang to be an excellent general purpose programming language. With that, the one-off projects that aren’t systems or servers always had the bloat of OTP, and never felt right. (more…)

I’d like to write about a computer program that has been described by Dr William Byrd as being the most beautiful program ever written, which you may hear all about in his wonderfully re-watchable talk on it. (more…)

Natively Implemented Functions, more commonly known as NIFs, are not a new thing in Erlang. They have been around for several years, and are commonly used fo...

I typically like to do development work on my local machine. Locally I’ve got all my favorite tools, scripts, and aliases along with custom … (more…)

This is a quick introduction to the Elixir syntax for Erlang developers and vice-versa. It is the absolute minimum amount of knowledge you need in order to understand Elixir/Erlang code, support interoperability, read the docs, sample code, etc. (more…)