NEWS
Erlang User Conference 2012
Written by Henrik, 19 Apr 2012
The Erlang User Conference is returning again but this year, in the Swedish sunshine 28-30 May 2012!
Erlang Solutions now provides binary packages of Erlang
Written by Kenneth, 09 Mar 2012
Erlang Solutions now provides binary packages and test results for most operating systems, including Windows, Ubuntu, Mac OSX, Fedora, CentOS Debian and others.
GETTING STARTED
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.
What 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.