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Type-safe OTP in Gleam with Louis Pilfold - EMx 187

Elixir Mix

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OTP and Erlang OTP - What's Your Journey?

OTP isn't written in C it's written in Erlang you get like send the receive link monitor trap exits. You can kind of make something work-ish but it's not super amazing and I found it quite unfulfilling because just because you've got something that is expressive enough to be able to do that doesn't actually mean you can really do the same things inside OTP. If we were if we were directly on the virtual machine we'd be written in C but we're not we're one layer up it can be written in Er lang. We want to start from nothing and build up to OTP as soon as possible so there are a lot of little hairy bits

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