[davidw]

> when Ericsson decided to remove "experimental pmods" support from Erlang in version 16, the compiler magic in ChicagoBoss turned from "oh cool" into a liability.

It caused a bit of hassle, but not much, really. It was a feature that many Erlang people did not like much in the first place, so heavy use of it put them off to begin with.

[rambocoder]

I agree with you that it wasn't that much of a hassle technically, just wish that the announcement was done with more transparency instead of "OTP Technical Board" met somewhere and this is what was decided http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-October/06...

Reminds me of Microsoft's .NET development process from 10 years ago, huge corporation drives development of a platform behind closed doors with very few people from the outside having any idea what is coming in the future.

[rambocoder]

I wonder if IEUG made any more progress on their TODO list https://erlangcentral.org/industrial-erlang-user-group/join/ in Publishing OTP backlogs and Public issue tracker...