[erlang-questions] Time for OTP to be Renamed?

[Garrett Smith]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Garrett Smith <g@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> Sigh. This *is* confusing. It just is.
>>
>> Loïc you *cannot* use Erlang without OTP. The VM starts a system,
>> which consists of applications, which are supervisory trees of
>> gen_servers.
>
> This is wrong -  you can use Erlang without OTP.
>
> OTP loads 60 odd modules, starts a code server and some other stuff and
> *then* executes your code.
>
> You can "easily" roll your own system that uses far fewer modules and gets
> you up
> and running, but then you don't get the shell, the code loader and a load of
> other goodies.
>
> Appendix 3 of the 2'nd edition of Programming Erlang tells you *exactly* how
> to do this.
>
> To summarise  Appendix 3 - I load 3 modules in 20ms instead of the 1.1s
> Erlang + OTP takes (on the same machine) then you're up and running, not OTP
> but a with a code loader and simple I/O system.

Book ordered.

The prospect of getting off the OTP facility is very appealing. If
it's that trivial to get the same features without incurring the cost
of those modules, I'm in.

I think the needle could move here.

Garrett