What do you think should be in OTP?

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@seriyps

Interface for more advanced configuration formats, other than sys.config / application:env (so, there is an interface to access the configuration and to handle configuration upgrades, but the syntax would depend on backend)

I think Lukas was talking about something similar here : Configuration of Erlang system

@seriyps

Some small library to control timeouts / timers (some abstraction on top of erlang:send_after / erlang:cancel_timer etc) - with gen_statem it might be not that usefull, but I implemented a tons of gen_servers with boilerplace code around send_after/cancel_timer etc)

I think that might be a great thing, and it’s the little things that go a long way and have big impact!

@seriyps

Probably some better API for timezone-aware date/time-based calculations, date/time formatting/parsing, similar to Python’s datetime. We have qdate, but it’s quite limited. But timezone database should be definitely shipped separately.

Fully agree