There was some time when I started thinking about giving a boost to Lambdapad, the initiative from @garretsmith in Erlang that I loved was abandoned and I needed to get it for my blog, which was created in 2006 and has more than 300+ posts.

I started using WordPress, but I hate to keep the security and the constant tries to get it down, then I discovered Jekyll, but it was a bit awful from my point of view, and then I was moved to Octopress, which was a nicer version of Jekyll, still in Ruby.

Things were good, more or less, but getting slower and slower. Suddenly, Garret came with fresh air, a new idea using Erlang and faster than Octopress, I got into that very fast and I was amazed about what could I get developing with Erlang. But, again, things started going slower because I wanted to get more (i.e. tags, categories, …)

I was thinking about, what if Markdown could be handled by Erlang? and then I just realized that was done by Dave Thomas (and now it’s maintained by @RobertDober very actively), and it’s the magic behind ex_doc.

Ok, things (or pieces) were failing down, I rewrote everything in Elixir and started to use Earmark. I was providing some feedback to the project because my use case was a bit different from ex_doc, but finally, it was working, Lambdapad was relaunched:

https://lambdapad.com

Recently I’m reviewing the internal quality of the code, keeping clear the interfaces for helping me to add new cool features, and I was even presenting the project in the last Code BEAM STO 2022, I’ll share the Youtube video when it’s available.

This entry in the forum is only to give you information about the project, publish updates, and a way you can ask for features, ask questions, suggestions, … whatever indeed, comments are welcome!

https://github.com/lambdapad/lambdapad