<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 12:16 AM Sam Overdorf <<a href="mailto:soverdor@gmail.com">soverdor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It is hardly random source. It is only stuff supported by me because<br>
it is my application supported by me.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I have some pretty nasty war stories where people couldn't build software on their development machine, whereas the CI system and other users happily built the software. The culprit turned out to be .erlangrc. It is of course easy when you control the environment, but many hours have been wasted on this, trust me.</div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regard this is a deliberate design trade-off in the language. My hunch is it saves around 10 people whenever it inconveniences 1.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>