A functional language on the Erlang VM, built for scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
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A functional language on the Erlang VM, built for scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
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A functional language on the Erlang VM, built for scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
Common extensions include .ex, .exs.
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