[erlang-questions] Ways to get started

[Mihai Balea]

On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Garrett Smith wrote:
> 
> I'd be curious to know what editor/IDE/toolset people use other than
> Emacs. Catch is, you have to be overall happy with it :)

I use Text Mate, it's fast and there's a decent Erlang bundle available.
CLI for building and everything else.

> 
> Use a system package (e.g. aptitude, yum, pacman) or a mainstream
> installer. I wouldn't mess with compiling from scratch, much less
> getting source from github.

I always build from the official sources. It's quite easy, basically just configure, make, sudo make install
Distro packages tend to be outdated, Mac packagers as well.

Mihai
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