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I am Kinga, originally from Hungary, currently livigng in Greater London.
Since university I have been in love wit...
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Because it runs on the BEAM, you inherit Erlang/Elixir distribution for free.
Run Python on any node:
# Execute on remote node
:rpc.cal...
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I wanted to share Nova, a web framework built on Erlang/OTP that works natively with Erlang, Elixir, and LFE. If you’ve ev...
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I am on a Macbook M1 chip running Sequoia 15.7.4. I want to be able to use “observer” from Elixir. I installed wxwidgets with --enable-co...
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Enum.sort([[3, -999], [3], [2, 999]])
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Enum.sort([{3, -999}, {3}, {2, 999}])
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So I am trying to install Erlang 24.2.2 and 24.3.2 but the build keeps failing, this is my first time using a Mac so I have minimal knowl...
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I have asdf installed with the all the dependencies mentioned on the site. I am able to successfully installed and use different versions...
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I made the switch recently from an x86 MacBook to Apple silicon (M3) and it seems to fail my Docker/Minikube workflow that perfec...
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New to Elixir, I’m trying to compile the default project in the getting started guide and get this error:
mix compile
Compiling 1 file (...
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Is anyone aware of a guide that describes the optimal, or even just recommended, VM configuration options for specific deployments?
Sche...
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I’ve multiple api instances installed on the on premise servers that are sometimes offline. I’d like to setup one master admin node that ...
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A short and personal history of the book
I, Erik Stenman (Happi), started writing this book back in 2013. At first I was thinking of sel...
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I’m the author of the Domo library that validates struct’s data against its @type spec and would like to upgrade it to support in-me...
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First announced on the Erlang Forum, BEAMup is a tool for installing a managing the active instance of BEAM languages. It has support for...
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Hi, after searching a lot here, on Google and Github I couldn’t find any Dicom Library like PyDicom (Python) or DCMTK (C++) for Erlang/El...
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To save some time when switching projects or development machines, I glued together an asdf plugin that uses Erlang precompiled b...
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I am typing this post from my new MacBook Pro with the M1 chip. I’m loving it so far, and will probably use it as my daily dr...
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I tried installing
elixir 1.11.2
erlang 23.3.4
via asdf in my zsh shell. Enabled the versions locally and globally.
When I list them ...
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What is the way to convert
[ %{id: 7, name: "A", count: 1}, %{id: 8, name: "B", count: 1}, %{id: 9, name: "C", count: 0} ]
to
[ ...
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I commented on this Elixir lang GitHub issue:
I just observed this error today. I hadn’t seen it before. I installed both Erlang and El...
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According to the stock example cited in elixir Ecto 3.4.6 docs …
post = MyRepo.get!(Post, 42)
post = Ecto.Changeset.change post, title: ...
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I just got my new M2 macbook pro in the mail! Excited to get going with it but am having trouble installing Erlang…
I installed asdf thr...
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I’m running Phoenix 1.3 with Elixir 1.6 and Erlang OTP 20 in a docker container.
I use comeonin ~> 4.0 and bcrypt_elixir ~> 1.0
W...
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I’ve just released stable versions of my Prometheus Elixir libs:
Elixir client [docs];
Ecto collector [docs];
Plugs instrumenter/Export...
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I’m working on an ejabberd project but I’m having an issue with login through xmpp client. Here’s a gist for the ejabberd.yml
Environm...
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Hello, I've tried 2 libraries for parsing XML: sweet_xml and quinn, and both rely on the Erlang package xmerl.
They both work great, bu...
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I want to use the observer program for my elixir apps.
Off late I am shown this warning when I try to install erlang using asdf
APPLICA...
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I have this code, i want to stop_clock right now with erlang :timer. How can I do this ? Is it possible ?
def handle_event("start_clock...
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I am new to the Phoenix, but I have some experience in Ruby so I am learning Phoenix to build my chat application.
I like to know i...
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I am trying to create a media streaming server in Elixir, with an initial focus on RTMP publishing and playback. I chose Elixir...
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Is it still not possible to specify Erlang compatibility in mix.exs?
Erlang/OTP is a dependency of Elixir, so it is an indirect dependen...
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Got a question about when to concat vs. prepending items to list then reversing to achieve appending.
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I have followed this StackOverflow post to install the specific version of Erlang.
And When I am running mix ecto.setup then getting fol...
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can someone please explain to me how Enum.reduce works with maps
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Rust has a very nice semantics for Option<T> and Result<T,E> These two have similar uses but have a clear distinction about e...
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I’m trying to install erlang otp 22.x. I have installed elixir and erlang using asdf and I have set the global version as otp 23 and elix...
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Currently I am writing a small macro which adds authorization functionality to a function. Rewrite ‘def’ to ‘defprot’ and add the rules t...
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I want to convert “3” to “11”, and then “11” to “00000011” in elixir.
But I don’t know any ways to do it.
Help me!
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A new Erlang news item has been posted!
Link: Release OTP 24.0 · erlang/otp · GitHub
Posted via Devtalk.
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I’m trying to generate a checksum using :crypto.hash/2, I want to hash the first 8 characters only of my string and get the...
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Is there any significant difference in the runtime speed of programs written in erlang vs. elixir? What (if any) advantages are there to...
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after wor...
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I can mon...
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