[ianleeclark]

> IEx also has been improved to show the documentation for Erlang modules directly from your Elixir terminal.

This is a really nice change for those of us who straddle both languages. I've done a fair bit of work with both ets and the crypto module and having to jump into and out of firefox felt at odds with the rest of the development experience.

[andy_ppp]

Also the online Erlang docs are arguably even more utilitarian than iex docs output...

[elcritch]

That made me laugh, but it's true. The Erlang docs are like 1980's brutalist architecture. Functional but utilitarian. But it's great to have the Erlang docs in IEx; it's my favorite docs interface.

[ch4s3]

Yeah, IEx's h/1 function is great. I just wish it had some sort of built in search for when you don't really know exactly the Module and function you're looking for.

[vincnetas]

"Functional BUT utilitarian" ?

You mean "Functional AND utilitarian" because for me these both are very welcome features.

[lostcolony]

The conjunction here is purely to taste, since utilitarian implies functional, as well as not particularly attractive; both are correct (as would just 'utilitarian', since it's not a loss of information, implying as it does the functional aspect).

[andy_ppp]

I read that comment less literally and more like “they just about work for their function, but damn they ugly” :-)

[lostcolony]

Sure, but do you interpret "functional and utilitarian" as meaning anything different? Utilitarian tends to imply functional + ugly.

[dj_mc_merlin]

The Common Lisp HyperSpec on the other hand looks like it was written by a monk obsessed with dictionaries.