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Erlang/OTP

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Erlang/OTP

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It has built-in maps now! (like dicts or hashes in other languages). http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=maps That is exciting. I'd want to play with it again. I like…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year93 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2009-11-25 17:20:26 UTC to 2026-05-11 21:10:48 UTC.

0510152009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20092010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 3 submissions, 8 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 5 submissions, 11 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

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20092009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1138
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16511
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

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Erlang/OTP Erlang is a programming language and runtime system for building massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. OTP is a set of Erlang libraries, which consists of the Erlang runtime system, a number of ready-to-use components mainly written in Erlang, and a set of design principles for Erlang programs. Learn more about Erlang and OTP. Learn how to program in Erlang. Examples There are several examples on the website to help you get started. The below example defines a function world/0 that prints "Hello, world" in the Erlang shell: -module(hello). -export([world/0]). world() -> io:format("Hello, world\n"). Save the file as hello.erl and run erl to enter the Erlang shell to compile the module. Erlang/OTP 24 [erts-12.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [jit] Eshell V12.2 (abort with ^G) 1> c(hello). {ok,hello} 2> hello:world(). Hello, world ok Learn more about the Erlang syntax of modules, functions and expressions on Erlang.org. Installation Binary Distributions Erlang/OTP is available as pre-built binary packages by most OS package managers. apt-get install erlang Compiling from source To compile Erlang from source, run the following commands. The complete building and installation instructions can be found here. git clone https://github.com/erlang/otp.git cd otp Checkout the branch or tag of your choice git checkout maint-27 # current latest stable version Configure, build and install ./configure make make install Alternatively, you can use Kerl, a script that lets you easily build Erlang with a few commands. Bug Reports Please visit our GitHub Issues page for reporting bugs. The instructions for submitting bugs reports can be found here. Security Disclosure Please do not report security vulnerabilities through public channels, like GitHub issues, discussions, or pull requests. Please disclose the security issues following our SECURITY guidelines. Contributing We are grateful to the community for contributing bug fixes and improvements. Read below to learn how you can take part in improving Erlang/OTP. We appreciate your help! Contribution Guide Read our contribution guide to learn about our development process, how to propose fixes and improvements, and how to test your changes to Erlang/OTP before submitting a pull request. Help Wanted We have a list of Help Wanted bugs that we would appreciate external help from the community. This is a great place to get involved. Awesome-Erlang You can find more projects, tools and articles related to Erlang/OTP on the awesome-erlang list. Add your project there. License Erlang/OTP is released under the Apache License 2.0. For any license inquiry, please send an email to opensource@ericsson.com %CopyrightBegin% SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 Copyright Ericsson AB 2010-2025. All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. %CopyrightEnd%
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What Hacker News says

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rdtsc·Nov 23, 2013Recommendation phrase
It has built-in maps now! (like dicts or hashes in other languages). http://www.swi-prolog.org/pldoc/man?section=maps That is exciting. I'd want to play with it again. I like Prolog. Or rather, I like idea of Prolog, until I go to solve a problem and it breaks my brain. I love seeing elegant solutions to complicated problems in 10 lines of code, but also realizing there is little chance of me coming up with those solutions. Other languages, functional, OO, imperative, I can often iteratively improve a solution. It goes from wrong,better, even better, almost works, good enough. With logic languages it goes from wrong, wrong, wrong, x100 ..., aha I got it and it is beautiful and short. Also speaking of maps, Erlang is probably going to get them too in the next release early next year -- R17, https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/egil/maps/eep
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In SWI-Prolog extensions in version 7
davidw·Jan 23, 2013
It has two major flaws: * When you move code around, you have to pay a lot of attention to the "ant turd tokens": ; , and . or the lack of one in the right places. That is very annoying. * It's very repetitive at times. Redundancy is great for servers, not so much for code you have to modify. Take this as an example: https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/src/fil... It's got a lot of things repeated, and you have to play "spot the difference" to read the code and figure out what's going on. That's a fun game for my four year old, not so much when you're working. I like pattern matching, and it seems that with some tweaks, you could extract common bits of code and end up with something more succinct, so that you only write code that regards the actual differences between two code paths, rather than also having to write t
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he same boilerplate over and over. I have been spoiled by Ruby's "don't repeat yourself" mentality.
In Towards a better Erlang - The Excitement of Elixir

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