Top "Erlang" questions

Erlang is a general-purpose, garbage-collected programming language and runtime environment, with built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

How to use mochijson to encode data structure in erlang?

I am using mochiweb and I don't know how to use its json encoder to deal with complex data structure. …

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Is F# really faster than Erlang at spawning and killing processes?

Updated: This question contains an error which makes the benchmark meaningless. I will attempt a better benchmark comparing F# and …

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How to run a custom function when starting an Erlang shell / node? (That is, a function within an `.erl` file)

I can start an Erlang file either via the command line or bash script: exec erl file.erl But, I …

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Installing up-to-date version of Erlang on RHEL7

I'm trying to install an up to date (version 20.3 at the moment of the writing) Erlang distribution into RHEL7 (release 7.5 …

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rebar: error exit on create-app: {crypto,start,[]}

I followed the instructions here, to the letter. I then ran the instruction to create an application project structure, and …

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Erlang: what is the difference between "include_lib" and "include"?

What is the difference between "include_lib" and "include" ? E.g. -include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl")

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Is there a good, complete tutorial on Erlang parse transforms available?

There are lots of fragments out there detailing bits and pieces of the parse transform process in Erlang, but none …

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Erlang: supervisor(3), adding a child process

Where can I find example on how to add dynamic child processes to an existing supervisor (simple_one_for_one …

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How to filter messages in Ejabberd

I have Ejabberd up and running with test users, and its working fine. I want to write a module that …

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In the Erlang shell, how can I automatically read all my record definition headers

This started off as the question: Almost every time when I use the Erlang shell, I'd like to run some …

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