This week in Erlang — Aug 25

Hello and welcome to “This week in Erlang”! As expected, there was a lot of action on the OTP side this week, and maybe a little too slow everywhere else. However, there was a piece of great news that came out this week. Read on!

Articles and Blog posts

Library updates

OTP Updates

Library of the week

A very cool library that I still have not found a good use for is Inaka’s Niffy library. It was created by Brujo Benavides (@elbrujohalcon) and Hernán Rivas Acosta (@hernanrivasacosta) to make adding NIFs to Rebar3 projects easier. Have a look and see if it solves any of your problems:

Niffy: https://github.com/inaka/niffy
Examples: https://github.com/HernanRivasAcosta/niffy_example

Project of the week

On one of the Erlang mailing list threads, Joe linked to Skel as a framework for making concurrent Erlang easier. I had forgotten about it, but this library/framework is really interesting and definitely worth a look:

Announcements

As usual you can help/suggest/fix mistakes for this newsletter at Github: https://github.com/gootik/this-week-in-erlang

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Sasan “Gootik” Hezarkhani

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A Hacker/Programmer currently working on real time bidding systems for Vungle. Used to do Games at Origin at Electronic Arts.

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