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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning right now? by tylerpachal on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:55PM (#15708222)
Elixir and OTP. Really enjoying it and writing some blog posts about it. My latest [1] was an experiment in creating my own simple supervisor.

I am working my way up to having an Elixir application spread across many containers where the processes can pass messages to processes in other containers.

[1] https://medium.com/@tylerpachal/let-it-crash-creating-an-exa...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning right now? by jwist on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @06:02PM (#15708837)
What is OTP?
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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning right now? by tylerpachal on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:15PM (#15709815)
OTP comes from Erlang (which Elixir is built on) and it is a framework that is used for creating distributed applications (it originally stood for Open Telecom Platform). It has databases, a test framework, and debugging tools to help.

Down in Elixir land you mainly see it in the form of GenServer (generic servers that are essentially actors) and Supervisors for supervising those GenServer workers and other tasks/processes/

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Re:Ask HN: What are you learning right now? by jwist on Saturday November 25, 2017 @12:55PM (#15776967)
Cool thanks!
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