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 …

Download Erlang/OTP The latest version of Erlang/OTP is 28.4.1. To install Erlang you can either build it from source or use a pre-built package. Take a look at the Erlang/OTP 28 release description to see …

1.2 What is OTP? OTP (Open Telecom Platform) is a large collection of libraries for Erlang to do everything from compiling ASN.1 to providing a WWW server. Most projects using "Erlang" are …

On-line documentation Erlang/OTP Documentation Online documentation for the latest version of the run-time system as well as all the libraries. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World …

Introduction This section is a quick start tutorial to get you started with Erlang. Everything in this section is true, but only part of the truth. For example, only the simplest form of the syntax is shown, not all …

Any of the Erlang books can also be used as tutorials. The Erlang distribution includes a step-by-step getting started guide. This is also online. Ericsson run training courses for Ericsson employees. …

Introduction This section is the Erlang reference manual. It describes the Erlang programming language. Purpose The focus of the Erlang reference manual is on the language itself, not the implementation …

When writing Erlang programs, it is also allowed to use macro and record expressions. However, these expressions are expanded during compilation and are in that sense not true Erlang expressions.

Erlang has its own shell where you can directly write bits of Erlang code and evaluate (run) them to see what happens (*manual*). Start the Erlang shell (in Linux or UNIX) by starting a shell or command …

Building Building Erlang/OTP on a relatively fast computer takes approximately 5 minutes. To speed it up, you can utilize parallel make with the -j<num_jobs> option. $ export MAKEFLAGS=-j8 # …