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This has been bugging me for a long time. There are some things we explain because we know other people don’t understand them and there are some things we don’t explain because we assume that everybody else knows them. So this is about web-servers written in Erlang and Elixir. The idea to write this came after watching the Making the Web Functional presentation by Chris McCord and Evan Czaplicki a

I don’t know where to start this. It started off as my post turkey festive season relaxation and just gets longer and longer. I thought to myself “I’ll try and make a GUI in Swift using only emacs and the Swift REPL” - I Googled a bit (as one does these days) and found an amazing bit of code in Swift from the command line . “Jens” gave the following code example: #!/usr/bin/swift import WebKit let

Yesterday release candidate 1 of version R17 of Erlang was released. This was a major event. Version R17 has some changes to Erlang that significantly improve the language. These are the biggest changes since the introduction of higher order functions and list comprehensions. Erlang now has maps and named arguments in funs. We’ve been talking about maps for over twelve years, but now they are here

The other day I got a mail from Dean Galvin from Rowan University. Dean was doing an Erlang project so he asked “What example program would best exemplify Erlang”. He wanted a small program, that would be suitable for a ten minute talk that would best show off the language. I thought for a while … and quickly wrote my favorite program, it’s the “Universal server”. The Universal Server Normally ser

About a week ago I started looking at Elixir. Elixir had been one of those things that was vaguely aware of but had not yet time to look at in any detail. This all changed when I discovered the announcement that Dave Thomas was publishing Programming Elixir. Dave Thomas edited my Erlang book and did great work in introducing Ruby, so when Dave gets excited about something then this is a sure sign