What is Erlang?
Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.
Erlang QuickstartWhat is OTP?
OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own distributed database, applications to interface towards other languages, debugging and release handling tools.
Getting Started with OTPNews
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Erlang/OTP 28.1 Release
September 17, 2025 by Henrik Nord - Erlang/OTP 28.1 is the first maintenance patch package for OTP 28, with mostly bug fixes.
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Erlang/OTP 28.0
May 21, 2025 by Henrik Nord - Erlang/OTP 28.0 is a new major release with new features, improvements as well as a few incompatibilities.
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Erlang/OTP 28 Highlights
May 20, 2025 by Isabell Huang - Erlang/OTP 28 is finally here. This blog post will introduce the new features that we are most excited about.