[erlang-questions] maps or records?

[Sergej Jurečko]

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> When keys are defined statically (i.e. they do not change at run time), such as process state, a tuple (such as an Erlang record) is the semantically-correct choice.

On the other hand when debugging maps can be much more helpful. Crash logs produced with maps are so much clearer and printing a map is much easier as well. 

Nothing stops you from having a schema for maps. Use creator functions that return a map with predefined keys and default values. If you're replacing records for maps, this is pretty important. Otherwise it is difficult to find out what the actual state is.

Sergej