What are the best open source Erlang projects/files for a novice to read? [closed]

Answer 1

I have started with Getting Started with Erlang. Nice round-up about basic language characteristics and concurrency model. Also quite good paper is A History of Erlang, because I like to explore what roots language has.

I'm currently interested in CouchDB, so I started with going through its source. It might not be good for start, but I'm curious how it works.

Answer 2

Did you see the page http://beebole.com/erlang ?

It contains:

• how to setup an Erlang environment(with Mochiweb) on Ubuntu

• how to install the Nginx web server

• a video tutorial to build a small web app using Erlang

Answer 3

I think that the following tutorial has a quite realistic application following OTP practices.

A fast web server demonstrating some undocumented Erlang features

But I might be biased since I continued work on it to meet some actual needs I had, the project is called 'iserve'. But other people have used it as study material, see pokingarounderlang on iserve.

Answer 4

I personally like to browse YAWS and ejabberd: both provide some interesting techniques and can be tinkered with being modular.

Answer 5

eTap actually is a good overview of some of the basic concepts but not too complicated to follow. It has a service and sends messages, outputs formatted data, and does interesting things.

If you want to learn how to do OTP then your best bet is probably MochiWeb. It's a little more advanced but it has a full OTP setup with supervisors/gen_servers and would be a good overview of how a general OTP system is setup.