Erlang Language Platform: Revolutionizing the Erlang Development Experience

In this talk we unveil the ""Erlang Language Platform"" (in short ""ELP""), a groundbreaking, open-source project poised to transform the development experience for the Erlang programming language.

Designed at WhatsApp and inspired by the success of the Rust Analyzer project, ELP is a compiler front-end for Erlang providing a scalable, fully incremental, IDE-first library for the semantic analysis of Erlang code. By implementing support for the LSP protocol, ELP acts as a next-generation language server, revolutionizing the way developers write, debug and maintain Erlang Code.

In this talk we provide a high-level introduction to the project, discover what is necessary for a good interactive compiler and how it differs from more traditional compilers.