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Looks great, thanks for sharing!

I just noticed you committed your .beam files and the _build directory. I think that's a bit unusual.

If you don't use specific features of jsx and can restrict compatibility to more recent versions of Erlang/OTP (27+) you might be able to use the built-in json module https://erlang.org/documentation/doc-15.0-rc3/lib/stdlib-6.0...

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Do you have a good example of a rebar3 application / umbrella app that would be good to copy in terms of structure? It has been a minute since I last touched erlang so I haven't really set up a proper directory structure myself before. Maybe I should just create a newbranch and try to set it up using Hex or something, not sure

Thanks for mentioning this, it seems I did indeed commit a lot of binary executable files

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Ah no worries at all. Thanks for sharing your library!

I think a good start could be rebar3's new app output.

    rebar3 new app myapp

That generates a src directory, a rebar.config file and a .gitignore file. The .gitignore would help keep the beams files out of git. If want others to use your project as a library from Erlang and Elixir an app structure is probably better?

Yeah, I would prefer to use Erlang here as I am making this a foundational library for a very large distributed system that I am migrating away from Python to probably Erlang + Rust for an AGI self play project

I want to be as close to the BEAM VM as possible

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