What are some interesting projects to solve in Erlang for learning purposes?

Asked 2008-12-20T15:24:13.433

I recently discovered Erlang and am now working my way through a couple of tutorials. By now I'm looking forward to actually implement something as a hobby project. I'm not really interested in yet another chat server. I would like to code something more interesting (yes I'm aware that this is a rather fuzzy term) which is also manageable, so I can finish it in my spare time.

Any suggestions?

Edit: The project should preferably highlight Erlang's strenghts (concurrency, distributed).

erlang distributed concurrency

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This doesn't exactly answer your question, but if you are looking for an interesting free, open-source project that is written in Erlang, you should definitely check out CouchDB. From the website:

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API. Among other features, it provides robust, incremental replication with bi-directional conflict detection and resolution, and is queryable and indexable using a table-oriented view engine with JavaScript acting as the default view definition language.

CouchDB is written in Erlang, but can be easily accessed from any environment that provides means to make HTTP requests. There are a multitude of third-party client libraries that make this even easier for a variety of programming languages and environments.

The CouchDB website has more details. Happy coding!

answered 2008-12-20T15:31:25.120

find something erlang doesn't have that you understand and like. I did that with etap https://github.com/ngerakines/etap/ Now nick has taken over management and it's used internally at EA games. It was fun to make and like a previous poster it was something real so I learned to serve real world problems working on it.

answered 2009-01-03T21:31:15.467

What are some interesting projects to solve in Erlang for learning purposes?

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