Erlang is an [[Apache v2]] licensed bytecode functional programming language whose [[BEAM]] VM is written in [[3. Reference/Software/Programming Languages/C|C]]. - [Website](https://www.erlang.org/) - [Source](https://github.com/erlang/otp) - [Documentation](https://www.erlang.org/doc/) - [Awesome Erlang](https://github.com/drobakowski/awesome-erlang) - [Try](https://tryerlang.org/#) > **Erlang** is a programming language and runtime system for building massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. # Notability Erlang has a lot of very interesting features even though the syntax is very odd. ## Derivatives While the [[BEAM]] VM was built for Erlang originally, [[Elixir]] is probably the most popular language using BEAM. - [[Elixir]] - [[Gleam]] - [[Alpaca (programming language)]] - https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca - [[Caramel (programming language)]] - https://github.com/leostera/caramel - Purerl, Erlang backend for PureScript - https://github.com/purerl/purerl > Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. # Philosophy # OS Support - [[Linux]] - [[FreeBSD]] - [[MacOS]] - [[Windows]] - [[Haiku]] (unofficial [port](https://depot.haiku-os.org/__multipage/pkg/erlang/haikuports/haikuports_x86_64/20/1/-/-/3/x86_64?locale=pt)) # Features ```dataview TABLE WHERE contains(file.name, "Erlang") OR contains(tags, "erlang") ``` # Tips # Resources - Alternative VM: https://www.atomvm.net/ # References - https://www.tutorialspoint.com/erlang/index.htm - https://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/functions#function-declaration-syntax