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Is there like a why's poignant guide to ruby for erlang?http://poignant.guide/book/ http://poignant.guide/book/
by brian_herman 9y ago
Is there like a why's poignant guide to ruby for erlang?http://poignant.guide/book/ http://poignant.guide/book/
- shadeless 9y agoThere's "Learn You Some Erlang for great good!" (http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ http://learnyousomeerlang.com/), which is a great (the best?) resource for learning Erlang.
- hordeallergy 9y agoI found it too densely informative. After the 2nd or 3rd attempt I ditched it and just jumped into programming. Personal preference possibly. I think erlang's difficulty is exaggerated. Just jump in - the immediate little wins will lubricate the process.
- derefr 9y ago"Densely informative" is the right way for a textbook to be, I think. You're not meant to read LYSE or books like it straight through; rather, each individual paragraph is dense enough with facts that after every one, you should stop and tinker with a toy example or two at the REPL to collect your thoughts and make sure you understand what's going on. If you imagine someone teaching Erlang with LYSE serving as the actual textbook, they'd do what is done with most textbooks: split each chapter into rather small segments, and have you do exercises after each one to "interactively" absorb the knowledge.
- jmcgough 9y agoAs a rubyist, I found Elixir was a great entrypoint - from there you can learn OTP behaviors like GenServer, and slowly start to learn Erlang syntax from using stuff like its data structures or ETS. Haven't found anything as great as why's guide yet though. Maybe it's just waiting to be written by someone :)
- marianoguerra 9y agowhat kind of guides would you like to see? we could help, but It's not easy to write docs like why did :) any other style that would work for you?