Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory is announcing that Erlang with version number 18.0 is already available to download.
What is Erlang ?
Erlang is A general-purpose concurrent programming language .
Erlang was designed by Ericsson’s Computer Science Laboratory.The programming language consists of extensive libraries of code for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications.Erlang also doubles as a runtime system for running distributed, fault-tolerant, real-time and non-stop applications.
This is changelog for Erlang version 18.0 :
- A more natural mapping from ASN.1 OCTET STRING and BIT STRING to Erlang types, and other ASN.1 improvements and optimizations
- The {active, N} socket option for TCP, UDP, and SCTP
- A new (optional) scheduler utilization balancing mechanism
- Migration of memory carriers has been enabled by default on all ERTS internal memory allocators
You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: erlang.org