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survey.rst

Which languages of the BEAM do you use?

  • Erlang
  • Elixir
  • Lisp Flavoured Erlang (LFE)
  • Alpaca
  • Efene
  • Erlog
  • Joxa
  • Luerl

How would you characterize your use of BEAM Languages today?

  • I use it at work
  • I use it for serious "hobby" projects
  • I'm just tinkering
  • I use it for my studies

If you use it at work and you can, can you share the name and/or URL of your company?

In which domains are you applying it?

  • AI / NLP / machine learning
  • "Big Data"
  • Building and delivering commercial services
  • Databases
  • Desktop apps
  • Distributed Systems
  • Enterprise apps
  • Games
  • Graphics / Art
  • IoT / home automation / physical computing
  • Math / data analysis
  • Mobile app development (non-web)
  • Music
  • Network programming
  • Open source projects
  • Research
  • Scientific computing / simulations / data visualization
  • System administration / dev ops
  • Web development
  • Other

What industry or industries do you develop for?

  • Academic
  • Communications / Networking
  • Consumer software
  • Education
  • Enterprise software
  • Financial services / FinTech
  • Government / Military
  • Healthcare
  • IT/Cloud Provider
  • Media / Advertising
  • Retail / ecommerce
  • Scientific
  • Telecom
  • Other

How long have you been using Erlang?

  • Less than a year
  • 1 Year
  • 2 Years
  • 3 Years
  • 4 Years
  • 5 Years
  • 6+ Years
  • I've stopped using it

What's your gender?

  • Female
  • Male
  • Prefer not to say
  • Other

What's your age?

  • <20
  • 20-30
  • 30-40
  • 40-50
  • > 50

Where are you located?

  • North America
  • South America
  • Northern Europe
  • Southern Europe
  • Western Europe
  • Eastern Europe
  • China
  • India
  • Asia
  • Oceania
  • North Africa
  • South Saharan Africa
  • Middle East

How important have each of these aspects of Erlang been to you and your projects?

  • Community
  • Concurrency facilities
  • Ease of development
  • Functional Programming
  • Immutability
  • Runtime performance
  • The REPL
  • Tracing

Where do you deploy your applications?

  • Use on local machine(s)
  • Traditional Infrastructure
  • Private Cloud (or hybrid)
  • Public Cloud

What is your organization size?

  • Just me
  • 2-10
  • 11-100
  • 101-1000
  • 1000+

What has been most frustrating or has prevented you from using Erlang more than you do now?

  • Error messages
  • Hiring and staffing
  • Need more docs/tutorials
  • Hard to Learn it
  • No static typing
  • Need more tools
  • Need more text editor support/IDEs
  • Runtime performance
  • Finding libraries
  • Long term viability
  • App deployment
  • Installation process
  • Version incompatibility
  • Unpleasant community
  • Release schedule
  • Other

What is your level of experience with functional programming?

  • None
  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • Profunctor Optics Level

Prior to using Erlang, what way your primary development language?

  • C#
  • Common Lisp
  • C or C++
  • Go
  • Haskell
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • None
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Python
  • R
  • Ruby
  • Scala
  • Scheme or Racket
  • Swift or Objective-C
  • None
  • Other

What is your primary development environment?

  • Atom
  • Eclipse
  • Emacs
  • IntelliJ
  • Light Table
  • Sublime Text
  • Vim
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Other

Where do you go for Erlang news and discussions

  • Twitter
  • Stack Overflow
  • Mailing List
  • IRC
  • Planet Erlang
  • Other

What community forums have you used or attended in the last year?

  • Erlang Factory
  • Erlang Factory Lite
  • Erlang Mailing List
  • #erlang on IRC
  • Erlang Slack
  • Erlang Subreddit
  • Erlang User Conference
  • Local Meetup
  • Other

Which versions of the Erlang VM do you currently use in development?

  • <= 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20

Which versions of the Erlang VM do you currently use in production?

  • <= 15
  • 16
  • 17
  • 18
  • 19
  • 20

Which build tool do you use?

  • erlang.mk
  • Makefile
  • Rebar
  • Rebar3
  • Custom build scripts
  • Other

How do you test your code?

  • Common Test
  • Concuerror
  • CutEr
  • EUnit
  • PropEr
  • QuickCheck
  • Triq
  • I don't write tests
  • Other

Which client-side language are you using with Erlang?

  • Clojure
  • Clojurescript
  • Dart
  • Elm
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • Kotlin
  • Purescript
  • ReasonML/Ocaml
  • Scala
  • Swift/Objective-C
  • None
  • Other

Do you use HiPE?

  • Yes
  • No

Do you use dyalizer?

  • Yes
  • No

Which operating system you use for development?

  • FreeBSD
  • Illumos
  • Linux
  • MacOS
  • OpenBSD
  • Solaris
  • Windows
  • Other

Which operating system you use for deployment?

  • FreeBSD
  • Illumos
  • Linux
  • MacOS
  • OpenBSD
  • Solaris
  • Windows
  • Other

How do you deploy your application?

  • Chef
  • Custom deploy scripts
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Puppet
  • SaltStack
  • Zones
  • Other

Any feature you would like to see added to the language?

Any advise on how we can make Erlang more welcoming and easy to use?

Any comment?

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