Are property accessors possible in Erlang records?
I ran into a problem in Erlang yesterday that made me think: Is there anyway to implement a property accessor on a record?
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Taming the Erlang Beast
Becoming an Erlang developer has not always been easy, but over the last couple of years I've learned a few ways to tame the beast. It doesn't need to become any other language, but there's definitely room for improving the developer experience!
Concatenate Binaries and Strings in Erlang
Concatenating strings and binaries in Erlang can get ugly quick. Let's make it easier.
Evaluating a string of code in Erlang at runtime
Did you know that Erlang has the ability to read in a string representing a line of code to execute at runtime? It can parse it out, evaluate it and return the value.
Let's see how...
Evaluating Simple Expressions
At its most basic, we can just read any