Erlang/OTP 29.0

For anyone wondering what the "OTP" part is in Erlang/OTP, its 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

Looks like a nice set of improvements. Disabling the SSH daemon [0] by default is a good security change, same with disabling the SFTP by default.

I think the io_ansi [1] module sounds pretty cool, imo erlang doesn't have a great story for building complicated CLI applications right now, but I haven't tried much. I imagine having this in the stdlib will be a nice leg up in the future. The way fwrite works seamlessly across nodes is very nice, and exactly what I love to see from erlang.

The addition of Native Records [2] is really cool. I'm curious how this will be leveraged in Elixir in the future, since right now I think there is a mix of records, tuples, and maps depending on exactly what is being done. Like the EEP says, I doubt we'll ever see the old records deprecated entirely but this looks like a substantial improvement.

[0] https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/ssh/ssh.html

[1] https://www.erlang.org/docs/29/apps/stdlib/io_ansi.html

[2] https://github.com/erlang/eep/pull/81

Can someone please explain the innards?