Well, Erlang has been picking up :) - OTP27 added sigils[0], which allow you write UTF8 strings with just an additional tilde character ~"hallöchen" =:= <

Well, Erlang has been picking up :) - OTP27 added sigils[0], which allow you write UTF8 strings with just an additional tilde character ~"hallöchen" =:= <<"hallöchen"/utf8>> - Also, since OTP27, Erlang's own documentation[1] is written in Markdown and created using ex_doc[2] - doc attributes etc. have been added in OTP27 as well, I think - You can use ex_doc in your own Erlang projects using rebar3_ex_doc for a while now[3] I also miss the pipe operator, but there seems to be some opposition against it in Erlang-land (and it would need to be adjusted as Erlang's standard library doesn't put the "main" argument consistently in the first argument slot like Elixir does). [0]: https://www.erlang.org/blog/highlights-otp-27/#sigils https://www.erlang.org/blog/highlights-otp-27/#sigils [1]: https://www.erlang.org/doc/readme.html https://www.erlang.org/doc/readme.html [2]: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/writing-documentation.html https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/writing-documentation.html [3]: https://hexdocs.pm/rebar3_ex_doc/readme.html https://hexdocs.pm/rebar3_ex_doc/readme.html