Erlang

Erlang is a programming language with the specific qualities of immutable data and distributed computing.

Installation

Install the erlang package.

Usage

For further documentation you can read Erlang's docs.

To activate the console, run:

$ erl

Commands can be entered like this:

Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.7.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]
Eshell V10.7.2  (abort with ^G)
1> 1 + 2 .
3
2> (2 + 3) * 4 / 5 .
4.0
3>

Tips and tricks

Emacs mode

To set up the included Emacs mode, erlang-mode, follow the documentation (the OTP path is /usr/lib/erlang).