Welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter.

Articles and Blog posts

• Fred Hebert (@mononcqc): This is a transcript of a talk given at ElixirDaze and CodeBEAMSF conferences in March of 2018. - https://ferd.ca/the-hitchhiker-s-guide-to-the-unexpected.html

• While this is not the best piece of news out there about Erlang, the community should still be aware of the problems and try to solve them if possible. This article does a quantitative analysis of why learning Erlang in 2018 is not a good idea. - https://www.codementor.io/blog/worst-languages-to-learn-3phycr98zk?utm_content=67871817&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

Library Updates

• benoît chesneau (@benoitc): Hackney was updated to 1.12.x with lots of fixes and improvements, checkout the changelog. - https://github.com/benoitc/hackney/blob/master/NEWS.md#1120----2018-04-03

Library of the Week

If you still haven’t seen datum, you should take a look immediately. This library by Dmitry (AKA. fogfish) allows you to write clean “pure functional” Erlang programs. Give it a try and “scrap your boilerplate”:

https://github.com/fogfish/datum

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