Erlang online resources

erlang-resources.md

This is not intended to be comprehensive or authoritative, just free online resources I've found valuable while learning more about Erlang.

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• 0xAX's list of Erlang bookmarks
• Federico Carrone, Erlang Spawned Shelter
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• David Robakowski's curated list of awesome Erlang libraries, resources and shiny things

Instruction

• Erlang Master Classes (videos)
• Learn You Some Erlang
• Erlang in Anger
• Erlang Handbook: A concise reference for Erlang
• Concurrent Programming in Erlang / Part 1 (PDF)
• Try Erlang (hands-on web-based demo)
• Erlang for C, C++ and Java Programmers (very short overview)
• Thinking in Erlang
• Joe Armstrong's Ph.D. thesis (PDF)
• Introduction to Erlang blog series
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Riak and Erlang/OTP
• Getting Started with Erlang User's Guide
• OTP Design Principles User's Guide
• BEAM VM Wisdoms

Documentation

• Official Erlang docs
• Alternative presentation of Erlang docs
  • This site is particularly useful if you need to check docs for older versions of Erlang/OTP
• Inside the Erlang VM with focus on SMP (PDF)

Community

• Erlang Solutions
• ErlangCentral
• Erlware
• Planet Erlang
• Erlang subreddit

Mailing lists

• Erlang questions
• Erlang.org list of lists

Advocacy

• Erlang: The Movie
• Erlang is not a Concurrent Functional Programming Language
• Systems that Run Forever Self-heal and Scale: Lambda Jam keynote by Joe Armstrong
• Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework: QCon talk by Steve Vinoski
• Erlang – A survey of the language and its industrial applications (PostScript)
• Why Erlang Is Awesome
• When would you choose Erlang?
• Erlang's Big Idea
• Comparing C++ And Erlang For Motorola Telecoms Software

Style

• Solving Embarrassingly Obvious Problems In Erlang
• More Embarrassingly Obvious Problems
• Programming Rules and Conventions (incomplete)

Projects

• GitHub Erlang repositories
• Comprehensive Erlang Archive Network (unclear if still active)

Exercises

• Études for Erlang
• Erlang Programming Exercises
• Exercism

General FP(ish) exercises

• Project Euler
• Programming Praxis
• Rosalind
• Sphere
• CodeKata
• HackerRank

Collections of conference videos

• Erlang Solutions

Alternative languages targeting the Erlang VM

• Joe Armstrong's new dialect of Erlang
• Alpaca, the successor to MLFE
• ML Flavoured Erlang (MLFE) (now see Alpaca)
• Erlang flavored by Some ML
• Joxa
• Lisp-flavored Erlang (LFE)
• Elixir
• The Concurrent Schemer (CSCM)
• Efene
• Erlog, Robert Virding's implementation of Prolog in Erlang
• Erlyjs, JavaScript in Erlang
• Purescript compiler fork to target Erlang – Blog post

Erlang(-like) environments on the JVM

• Erjang
• Quasar
• Akka

Other Actor implementations

• Pony
• Orleans
• Akka.NET
• CAF - C++ Actor Framework
• SObjectizer
• QP
• Humus
• Proto Actor

HiPE (High Performance Erlang)

• All you wanted to know about the HiPE compiler (but might have been afraid to ask) (PDF)
• Erlang - Programming the Parallel World (PDF)

Erlang-heavy blogs

• Joe Armstrong on GitHub and Blogspot
• Jesper L. Andersen on Medium and Blogspot
• Paolo D’Incau
• Takeru OHTA (Japanese)
  • See also http://qiita.com/sile
• Ward Bekker
• Erlang Battleground by Brujo Benavides
• Federico Carrone
• It's Actors All The Way Down by Dale Schumacher

Software patterns

• Erlang Patterns

Actor patterns (currently only Akka resources)

• Enterprise application integration patterns for Akka actors
• Learnings from Actor Development

History

• LFE-Related History

Papers

Erlang

• History of Erlang
• One Pass Real-Time Generational Mark-Sweep Garbage Collection (1995)
• The development of Erlang (PDF)
• Implementing a functional language for highly parallel real time application (PostScript)
• Erlang - A survey of the language and its industrial applications (1996)
• An Introduction to Core Erlang (PostScript)
• Bjarne Däcker's thesis (2000)
• Comparison of Erlang Runtime System and Java Virtual Machine (PDF)
• Testing Erlang Concurrency with QuickCheck
  • Note: QuickCheck is commercial software, but tremendously powerful and accessible as a web resource via QuickCheck CI

Actor model (and similar)

• Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems / Hewitt, 2012 (PDF)
• The Actor Model (video)
• Actors and Continuous Functionals / Hewitt & Baker, 1977 (PDF)
• A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence / Hewitt, Bishop, Steiger, 1973 (PDF)
• Actor-Oriented Models for Codesign (PDF)
• ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems / Agha, 1985

Process calculus

Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP)

• An Introduction
• Hoare's book (PDF)
• Hoare's paper / 1978 (PDF)

π-calculus

• Relation to Pi Calculus from erlang-questions
• Modeling Erlang in the Pi–Calculus (PDF)
• π-calculus (Wikipedia)

Misc

• Erlang Cookbook: collaborative code snippets at ErlangCentral
• Mostly Erlang (podcast)
• Erlang interviews and resources
• Akka team blog
• Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? / Gray, 1985 (PDF)

Slide decks

• Erlang in Production

Twitter

Twitter seems to be the de facto water cooler for technical conversations, and Erlang is no exception.

There are far more active accounts than I can comfortably list here; these are just a few of the more interesting ones.

• Erlang Factory
• Erlang Solutions
• Robert Virding
• Joe Armstrong
• Paolo D’Incau
• Eric Merritt
• Francesco Cesarini
• Bryan Hunter
• Ram C Singh
• Totally Erlang
• Brian L Troutwine
• ErlangInfo
• Takeru OHTA

Changelog

(This was started several years after the creation of the gist.)

1. 2017-01-16 Added Dale Schumacher's blog focused on the actor model
2. 2017-01-16 Added Humus from Schumacher's blog to the list of actor implementations
3. 2017-01-20 Added https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages and a few languages not previously listed:
   • https://github.com/joearms/erl2
   • https://github.com/etnt/eml
   • https://github.com/rvirding/erlog
   • https://github.com/KlausTrainer/erlyjs
4. 2017-01-25 Added https://github.com/drobakowski/awesome-erlang
5. 2017-01-25 Added https://github.com/alpaca-lang/alpaca
6. 2017-01-27 Start new section on HiPE
7. 2017-01-27 Add http://www.slideshare.net/Arbow/comparing-cpp-and-erlang-for-motorola-telecoms-software
8. 2017-02-02 Add https://github.com/purerl/purescript and http://nwolverson.uk/devlog/2016/08/01/introducing-purescript-erlang.html
9. 2017-02-02 Add http://proto.actor