What computer/OS do you use for Erlang/BEAM dev?

AstonJ · October 18, 2021, 6:44pm

Which machines/OS do you use for Erlang/BEAM dev?

dumbbell · October 26, 2021, 3:51pm

FreeBSD on an x86-64 laptop as my daily driver.

At the time of this writing, Erlang/OTP from 21 to 24 are available as packages; version 24 being the default. It’s very easy to use them in parallel without the need to use a tool like kerl.

LincolnBryant · October 26, 2021, 5:15pm

Also using FreeBSD here. The FreeBSD packages are very nice, I just switched my code over to using the new JIT in OTP 24!

lpil · October 26, 2021, 5:17pm

I’m on OSX at the moment as I wanted an ARM laptop, but before that I was using Windows. Sadly Erlang on Windows was a bit frustrating, it didn’t work nearly as well as the other languages I was using at the time.

I hear the latest releases have improved a few things, so fingers crossed for next time I’m on that OS.

I’m also a long-time Linux user and I’m looking forward to trying FreeBSD at some point

hackerjones · October 26, 2021, 5:17pm

I develop and release exclusively for Linux.

tomkonidas · October 26, 2021, 7:37pm

I am using mostly OSX for my work laptop, and have Gentoo on my personal laptop.

I wanted to run FreeBSD as my daily driver but I use docker containers and well the docker story isin’t so well in the BSD land. I have looked into jails, but unfortunately the people I collaborate with are all used to docker-compose up.

vkatsuba · October 26, 2021, 8:25pm

It is more related to product but in CI we was do integrations as for MacOS, Windows, Linux. Locally of course Linux or/and Docker or Kubernetes for build more complex services.

Rainer · October 27, 2021, 2:47am

I’m using Linux and Windows, but I’m keeping everything in Docker. With docker-compose I can run all I need (eg Elixir/Phoenix/Postgres) with just one command, on whatever system is booted

Taure · October 27, 2021, 2:51am

Windows with wsl(ubuntu)

jerry-chao · October 27, 2021, 4:44am

I developed for osx, and release for linux

j4p3 · October 27, 2021, 5:22pm

Ubuntu 20 on a Dell XPS 7590, installing via asdf version manager.

joisig · October 27, 2021, 5:39pm

OSX, targeting Linux

afontaine · October 27, 2021, 5:51pm

I use NixOS for development, and generally deploy to NixOS as well

eeelix · October 27, 2021, 6:30pm

Debian or gentoo.

adolfont · October 27, 2021, 6:47pm

Ubuntu 21.04 hirsute (x86-64) on a Dell Notebook with a Interl Core i5 processor.

alex.lau · October 28, 2021, 2:53am

Windows with wsl2(ubuntu)

srijan · October 28, 2021, 5:17am

Windows with wsl2 (ubuntu)
Linux (Arch)

SirWerto · October 28, 2021, 10:36am

Fedora and some rpis:)

DevotionGeo · October 28, 2021, 1:44pm

Ubuntu and macOS. I install languages and databases etc through asdf.

OvermindDL1 · October 28, 2021, 6:55pm

I work on, develop for, and exclusively deploy on linux. Generally some variant of Debian (Kubuntu for desktop, Debian for servers, some Ubuntu servers in places), have a couple RedHat’s at work but it’s fragile. I experiment with other linux’s on occasion but they are… much more fragile, and though I can fix them, that does not make for a stable and trustworthy environment to work in.