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.

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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.

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News

Type-Based Optimizations in the JIT
April 26, 2022 by Björn Gustavsson
This post explores the new type-based optimizations in Erlang/OTP 25 where the compiler embeds type information in the BEAM files to help the JIT (Just-In-Time compiler) to generate better code.
OTP 25 Release candidate 3
April 13, 2022 by Henrik Nord
Erlang/OTP 25 rc3 is the third and final release candidate before the OTP 25.0 release.
OTP 25 Release candidate 2
March 23, 2022 by Henrik Nord
Erlang/OTP 25 rc2 is the second release candidate of three before the OTP 25.0 release.

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