[tmoertel]

For anyone wondering what the "OTP" part is in Erlang/OTP, it is a set of libraries and associated principles that, in effect, standardize the creation of highly reliable, fault-tolerant applications, originally for the telecom domain. It's worth checking out the brief introduction to the fundamental ideas in the introduction to "OTP Design Principles":

https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/design_principles.html

[hackernudes]

OTP = Open Telecom Platform

[davidw]

"Outlaw Techno Psychobitch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ

[Rendello]

And then Elixir was born!

I swear there's a video of Joe Armstrong et al. presenting part of this on stage and laughing along with it. I tried to find it last week but couldn't figure out which talk it was. A few years ago I think I watched every Erlang/OTP talk in existence.

[dnautics]

no longer. That is legacy. OTP now just stands for "OTP"

[ramchip]

It's still referred as such through the official documentation: https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction.html#idm24

You may be thinking of comments like: https://erlangforums.com/t/should-otp-be-the-standard-librar...