A relative newcomer to networking in Erlang, Dr. Ajay Kumar, has started a self-educational project to create a web server from scratch in Erlang to give himself some first-hand insight into how TCP sockets work in Erlang and how web servers work in general. Web servers are a thing almost everyone has written against or […]
Tag: otp
Building Erlang R23.0 on Debian/Ubuntu
As an update to my previous notes on building R22.2, my current notes for building Erlang R23.0 and installing ZX using kerl on a fresh system (Kubuntu 18.04 LTS) are below. The same instructions (or very nearly the same) should work for any Debian or Ubuntu version within a few years of 18.04 LTS. sudo […]
Erlang: Getting Started Without Melting
There are two things that might be meant when someone references “Erlang”: the language, and the environment (the EVM/BEAM and OTP). The first one, the language part, is actually super simple and quick to learn. The much larger, deeper part is learning what the BEAM does and how OTP makes your programs better. It is […]
Erlang: Eventually Things Will Change
I finally got a few days to really dedicate to the whole Zomp/ZX thing and wrote some docs. If you actually click this link soon you’ll see an incomplete pile of poo, but it is a firm enough batch of poo that I can show it now, and you can get a very basic idea […]
Why OTP? Why “pure” and not “raw” Erlang?
I’ve been working on my little instructional project for the last few days and today finally got around to putting a very minimal, but working, chat system into the ErlMUD “scaffolding” code. (The commit with original comment is here. Note the date. By the time this post makes its way into Google things will probably […]
Finally working on an intermediate Erlang instructional
After contemplating the state of the tiny constellation of Erlang resources available, both in-depth instructionals and books, I’ve finally decided that what is most lacking is an intermediate resource. So I’ve started working on one. The goal is to demonstrate a non-trivial system (a MUD, in this case) as it would be written in raw, […]