Having recently looked at how the Rust community is shaping up and how they are trying to make Rust more popular, it gave me an idea. I started using Erlang only a few years ago, and I was in love the second I started learning all the little cool things about the VM. I would love to attract more talent towards this great language, so I thought I’ll keep a blog of cool things I see around each week (modeled after “This Week in Rust” series):

New articles and blog posts

PropEr Testing by Fred Hebert : http://propertesting.com/

: http://propertesting.com/ Erlang Shell Vizualization By Vladimir Gordeev: http://vladimir-vg.me/erlang-shell-visualization-demo/

http://vladimir-vg.me/erlang-shell-visualization-demo/ Pierre Fenoll ’s Supercompiler parse transform looks really interesting, have a look! https://github.com/fenollp/erlscp

’s Supercompiler parse transform looks really interesting, have a look! https://github.com/fenollp/erlscp Erlang Solutions posted videos from EUC17. Watch them all at their Youtube channel.

Library Updates

Appliscale’s xprof library has seen some action and a few fixes/features have been merged.

Sidejob moved to be under ErlangPack Github “Organization”.

Zotonic is preparing a huge change to make everything an OTP application. Read more here.

Loïc Hoguin has updated cowlib and 2.0.0-rc1 has been released.

OTP Updates

An interesting PR recently got merged:

Introduce new_map_lit operation in the loader: This PR (by @michalmuskala) introduces optimizations towards map creations. Especially for small maps (less than 32 keys). Apparently 50% memory saving on some cases is expected!

Library of the week

GraphQL by Shopgun and JLouis:

This library is a good example how an Erlang library could be organized. From Travis CI integration to syntax consistency. This library has it all.