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Erlang/OTP 29.0

https://www.erlang.org/news/188
56•pyinstallwoes•1h ago

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solid_fuel•23m ago
Looks like a nice set of improvements. Disabling the SSH daemon [0] by default is a good security change, same with disabling the SFTP by default.

I think the io_ansi [1] module sounds pretty cool, imo erlang doesn't have a great story for building complicated CLI applications right now, but I haven't tried much. I imagine having this in the stdlib will be a nice leg up in the future. The way fwrite works seamlessly across nodes is very nice, and exactly what I love to see from erlang.

The addition of Native Records [2] is really cool. I'm curious how this will be leveraged in Elixir in the future, since right now I think there is a mix of records, tuples, and maps depending on exactly what is being done. Like the EEP says, I doubt we'll ever see the old records deprecated entirely but this looks like a substantial improvement.

[0] https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/ssh/ssh.html

[1] https://www.erlang.org/docs/29/apps/stdlib/io_ansi.html

[2] https://github.com/erlang/eep/pull/81

Erlang/OTP 29.0

https://www.erlang.org/news/188
57•pyinstallwoes•1h ago•2 comments

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

https://www.gutenberg.org/
694•JSeiko•8h ago•172 comments

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737•reasonableklout•4h ago•319 comments

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208•boramalper•6h ago•50 comments

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47•lukeplato•1d ago•5 comments

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40•matt_d•2h ago•4 comments

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24•tomjakubowski•1h ago•7 comments

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15•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

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334•happyhardcore•11h ago•154 comments

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299•Lihh27•5h ago•178 comments

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142•Tomte•14h ago•160 comments

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83•gdevic•7h ago•26 comments

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349•tencentshill•7h ago•236 comments

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125•MattRogish•9h ago•25 comments

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226•yminsky•14h ago•51 comments

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116•c1b•1d ago•29 comments

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231•cmsparks•5h ago•111 comments

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152•drob518•7h ago•145 comments

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147•bookofjoe•11h ago•21 comments

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39•LAsteNERD•2d ago•2 comments

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100•Cider9986•4h ago•70 comments

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178•rbanffy•14h ago•146 comments

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41•taviso•7h ago•13 comments