Welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter. We had a fairly slow week. But interesting stuff.

Articles and Blog posts

• ikura (@ikura_wild) has create a new library that makes talking (sending messages) to other languages much easier. Checkout the article here

• Jesse Gumm (@jessegumm) did a talk on “parse transforms” and Erlang metaprogramming. He has released the slides online, so have a look

Library Updates

• Lager had a “YUUUUGE” update :) https://github.com/erlang-lager/lager#3x-changelog

OTP Updates

• If you happen to look at the erlang/otp repo you may have noticed that a lot of performance PRs have been merged. One of more interesting ones is the recent change in argument rearranging. Björn Gustavsson (@bgustavsson) has a pretty good write up in the PR description so take a look for sure: https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1687

• Another big news is that there is now no “sender punishment” in BEAM. This meant if a process sent a message to another process with too many messages in the mailbox, it would get “punished” and have it’s reductions increased by 4. The reasoning is explained here

Library of the week

Tomasz Maciejewski has written a search engine in Erlang! This application includes a complete web UI frontend/indexing with a scalable crawler. It is really amazing how clean and well thought out the whole application design is. I would say see is a great repo to lookup to, both for Erlang beginners and people with experience. Check it out and run it on your own computer:

https://github.com/tmaciejewski/see

Events and Meetups

• If you haven’t heard, Erlang Factory has been renamed to Code BEAM (@CodeBEAMio)! Read about this year’s conference here: https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf-2018/

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