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…)

Want to discover a fun new Erlang project? A lot has been said about Erlang's concurrency and fault-tolerance, and with good reason, but it is still important to remember that programming can and should be fun. In this tutorial, we show you how to use E... (more…)

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Not so long ago, John Hughes showed a module called Aaargh!! to the erlang-questions mailing list. How parse transforms and macros and the Erlang compiler all worked together to mess up with us. (more…)

There are different ways to structure data within a file. In the age of web, the most prominent one is JSON, followed by middle-aged XML and configuration-oriented YAML. Human-readable ways to structure data, however, are just one side of the spectrum. Th... (more…)