[HN Gopher] Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
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       Erlang/OTP 27 Highlights
        
       Author : asabil
       Score  : 114 points
       Date   : 2024-05-21 06:52 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | sph wrote:
       | I love the new documentation site:
       | https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/stdlib/lists#duplicate/2
       | 
       | Looks a lot like Elixir's. The previous one was functional, but a
       | little barebones. A little colour, hyperlinking and syntax
       | highlighting goes a long way. Also, navigation seems to be
       | improved. I always lost my way navigating across Erlang modules
       | to find a specific function.
       | 
       | The entire Erlang/OTP ecosystem got a boost of mind share with
       | the explosion in popularity of Elixir, and it's so nice to see it
       | improve at breakneck pace [1], with some cross-pollination
       | between Erlang itself and Elixir. The ideas of Armstrong, Virding
       | and Williams are in many ways far ahead than a lot of mainstream
       | languages, and they were long overdue a revival under the
       | spotlight.
       | 
       | Keep up the good work!
       | 
       | 1: yet, it's still the most rock-solid platform to build services
       | upon, and you can quote me on that.
        
         | andy_ppp wrote:
         | I love that the Erlang guys seem to be so open to Elixir being
         | a big part of their ecosystem even relying on ExDoc for their
         | new documentation system (I think everyone can see it's a big
         | improvement over the brutalist UI that was there before). A lot
         | of software projects would be ego driven rather than pragmatic
         | on something like this.
        
           | cschmatzler wrote:
           | ExDoc is arguably one of the nicest documentation systems out
           | there, and Erlang moving to it means two things: 1. The
           | Erlang devs do not need to implement and maintain their own
           | anymore. 2. ExDoc will improve faster since people previously
           | working on Erlang's documentation system shift to it.
           | 
           | It's really a win for both, and I love it.
        
       | neillyons wrote:
       | Really like the new Erlang 27 docs
       | https://www.erlang.org/doc/readme.html
        
       | cpursley wrote:
       | JSON is a big one, great job Erlang folks!
        
       | sabzetro wrote:
       | Hyped about json becoming a first class citizen. As an Elixir
       | engineer and daily Jason user it will be great to rely on stdlib
       | functionality. Jason is great, regardless!
        
       | biorach wrote:
       | > The Erlang/OTP documentation before Erlang/OTP 27 was authored
       | in XML
       | 
       | ouch
        
       | aloha2436 wrote:
       | Reading about Erlang always feels like getting messages from an
       | alternate dimension where we as an industry made much better
       | choices in the 90s about how we write distributed software.
        
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