It would be great to move to 23. It has quite a few interesting features, which we could use.
Also as Nick said it would make switching to rebar3 easier. +1 to the proposal Best regards, iilyak On 2022/06/13 20:20:09 Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'd like to propose making Erlang 23 the minimum supported Erlang > distribution. We have accumulated a lot of ifdefs and other cruft > supporting various APIs and syntactic constructs since Erlang 20. With > Erlang 25 just released it could be a good time to do some cleanup. > > We could remove ifdefs for crypto, time functions, the non-syntactic > get_stacktrace() macro, as well as have access to nifty new > functionality like persistent terms, atomic counters and a few other > things. > > If we want to switch to rebar3, that would also be easier with Erlang > 23 being the minimum. > > What do we think? > > Thanks, > -Nick >
