“With Erlang you could build a messaging app with many connected users and not worry about how they communicate,” says Chad DePue, CTO of Whisper, an app for anonymous posts that has opted to use the ...

Concurrency is hard. A language’s implementation of concurrency concerns can make the challenge of dealing with concurrency even more difficult or a bit easier. Case in point: Erlang. Erlang is a hip ...

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Building scalable, distributed and reliable systems is trivial in Erlang. This can be a hard pill to swallow for many enterprise developers. Erlang is a dynamically typed functional language and Java ...

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise. Elixir is one of the most ...

Erlang is a functional programming language know for message-based concurrency model. Its BEAM virtual machine is still used by modern languages like Elixir and Gleam. Learn the basics of Erlang in ...

Security researchers find a 10/10 flaw in Erlang/OTP SSH Horizon3 Attack Team says the flaw is "surprisingly easy" to exploit A patch is available, so users should update now Erlang/OTP SSH, a set of ...