AstonJ

AstonJ

Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! (No Starch Press) (Paid/Free)

Erlang is the language of choice for programmers who want to write robust, concurrent applications, but its strange syntax and functional design can intimidate the uninitiated. Luckily, there’s a new weapon in the battle against Erlang-phobia: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

by Fred Hebert (@ferd)

Erlang is the language of choice for programmers who want to write robust, concurrent applications, but its strange syntax and functional design can intimidate the uninitiated. Luckily, there’s a new weapon in the battle against Erlang-phobia: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!

Erlang maestro Fred Hébert starts slow and eases you into the basics: You’ll learn about Erlang’s unorthodox syntax, its data structures, its type system (or lack thereof!), and basic functional programming techniques. Once you’ve wrapped your head around the simple stuff, you’ll tackle the real meat-and-potatoes of the language: concurrency, distributed computing, hot code loading, and all the other dark magic that makes Erlang such a hot topic among today’s savvy developers.

As you dive into Erlang’s functional fantasy world, you’ll learn about:

  • Testing your applications with EUnit and Common Test
  • Building and releasing your applications with the OTP framework
  • Passing messages, raising errors, and starting/stopping processes over many nodes
  • Storing and retrieving data using Mnesia and ETS
  • Network programming with TCP, UDP, and the inet module
  • The simple joys and potential pitfalls of writing distributed, concurrent applications
  • Packed with lighthearted illustrations and just the right mix of offbeat and practical example programs, Learn You Some - Erlang for Great Good! is the perfect entry point into the sometimes-crazy, always-thrilling world of Erlang.

Robert posted this comment on the Elixir Forum, I hope he won’t mind me reproducing it here:


Full details here: Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! | No Starch Press

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ferd

ferd

Author of Property-Based Testing with PropEr, LYSE, & Erlang in Anger

Both. It’s gonna be missing some newer features and stuff around releases is better covered by adopting Erlang right now, but for the core language, otp philosophy and approach to design it’s still good.

No starch press has reached out to me for a second edition but they haven’t set up follow up meetings. I’m hoping there will be one though.

ferd

ferd

Author of Property-Based Testing with PropEr, LYSE, & Erlang in Anger

Book contracts typically come with clauses for following editions, even to the point where if you refuse to work on it, they can get a ghost writer to do it and publish under your name. The one exception is when the contract is terminated, usually after it is out of print.

I’ll be working with no starch for this. They’re good editors and publishers anyway.

Rainer

Rainer

Already liking it for this title:
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Concurrency”
:smiley:

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