README.md
# Gleam Erlang 🐙
A library for making use of Erlang specific code!
## Features
- Typed Erlang processes and message sending.
- Erlang binary format (de)serialisation.
- Functions for working with Erlang's charlists.
- Basic distributed Erlang support and working with nodes.
- Reading and writing of environment variables.
- Functions for working with atoms.
## Usage
Add this library to your Gleam project
```shell
gleam add gleam_erlang
```
And then use it in your code
```gleam
import gleam/io
import gleam/erlang/process
pub fn main() {
let fun = fn() {
io.println("Hello from another process running concurrently!")
}
process.start(fun, True)
}
```
Documentation can be found at <https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_erlang/>.
This library requires OTP 23.0 or higher.