GAgallexme·Feb 4, 2020
There's a web based observer, it's called wobserver https://github.com/shinyscorpion/wobserver
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Web based metrics, monitoring, and observer
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4 sources> Erlang lives mostly in text terminals.
People (outside of Ericsson) just haven't bothered to take much advantage of Erlang's strengths. Erlang speaks network wire protocols very efficiently, so if you want graphical Erlang sessions, you just need to write Erlang applications that act as e.g. X11 clients. Which is what things like Erlang's own Observer application does, complete with the ability to use the graphics toolkit Tk. (Or, if you like, you could expose an HTTP server serving a web-app with live updates over a websocket, like https://github.com/shinyscorpion/wobserver. Or an VNC/RDP server. It's really all equivalent in the end.)
Unlike Smalltalk where the graphical capabilities are part of the local console framebuffer, Erlang's approach allows you to interact with a running Erlang node graphically irrespective of your locality
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to it—which is important, because, in the modern day, your software is very likely a daemon on a headless server/cloud somewhere.
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