What is Erlang?

Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

Erlang Quickstart

What is OTP?

OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own distributed database, applications to interface towards other languages, debugging and release handling tools.

Getting Started with OTP

News

Erlang/OTP 28.0

May 21, 2025 by Henrik Nord
Erlang/OTP 28.0 is a new major release with new features, improvements as well as a few incompatibilities.

Erlang/OTP 28 Highlights

May 20, 2025 by Isabell Huang
Erlang/OTP 28 is finally here. This blog post will introduce the new features that we are most excited about.

Erlang/OTP 28.0 Release Candidate 4

May 05, 2025 by Björn Gustavsson
Erlang/OTP 28.0-rc4 is the fourth release candidate for OTP 28

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