JOJoker_vD·Jul 5, 2023
Not to be confused with Rebar3 [0] which is a de-facto package manager and build tool for Erlang.
[0] https://github.com/erlang/rebar3
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rebar3
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rebar3
Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications and releases.
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Erlang build tool that makes it easy to compile and test Erlang applications and releases.
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesI agree with you. Erlang is not as hard as people make it out to be. However...
Look at this piece of code: https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/blob/master/src/r3.erl#L32-...
In this example the keyword "end" ends with "", ";", and "." all within 6 lines of each other.
In this example the keyword "ok" ends with "" and ";".
In this example `Self` "exclamation marks" `Ref`.
All of this is easily understood with some experience but you have to admit that `erlang.send(Self, Ref)` is much more easily understood than some symbol that has to be googled. And consider this, a junior dev is going to be overwhelmed with all the syntactic sugar. They're just learning how to define and call functions.
All of these issues matter if your goal is to on-board as many hobbyists and juniors as possible. (Which shouldn't be the goal of every language).
I'm
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very happy with Erlang. I don't want it to change.
As one of its maintainers I’m partial to rebar3 (http://www.rebar3.org/)
It’s become near-official for OSS Erlang work and the OTP team has moved the repo under their GitHub organisation (https://github.com/erlang/rebar3)
Erlang.mk tends to be the other option otherwise.
In Ten Years of Erlangrebar3 will become the standard build tool for erlang, it's already in the erlang organization (https://github.com/erlang/rebar3), most people nowadays use either rebar3 or erlang.mk (https://erlang.mk/), both work really well, at least for me.
In Erlang/OTP 20.0Well done! Great looking website.
I primarily use Erlang and is good to see it finally has a standardized package manager and that both Elixir and Erlang can use hex packages.
Rebar even moved under the main Erlang organization in Github:
https://github.com/erlang/rebar3
A nice step forward
In Hex.pm: Package manager for the Erlang ecosystem