rebar

And if you add some rebar the compound material can have some pretty good tensile properties too.

Would spot welding rebar piece by piece convey the same tensile strength as forming each member?

A person can buy a lot of rebar and concrete and forms and whatnot for $20k.

You can use wood, you can use steel, you can use concrete with rebar.

Go to almost any Erlang project, and you'll find 'rebar' or some variant.

I think we went short on the rebar3 descriptions just because of how known 'rebar' is as a household name.

Do engineers know the ins and outs of concrete and rebar?

One can also leave Rebar as a dependency tool strictly (which is its primary purpose anyway) and use whatever they like for a build system.

Making a pedestrian bridge out of that stuff is a stunt, but it could be useful for making rebar reinforcing over which concrete is then poured.

Seems a lot more practical to have a stick of rebar that a multi-axis robot can cut and spot weld then to create each member from scratch.

It broke, revealing almost no rebar in the thing.

Most people would understand that a bridge won't hold if you left out all the rebar from the structure, even if it wasn't visible from the outside.

The Getting Started page has no mention of what we are installing actually does aside from a snippet in their console output log "you can use rebar to build OTP-compliant apps".

> As a result, we risk ending up with a huge mess with packages like in the Erlang world with its Rabar This should be "Rebar"

Every year around burning man time it "notices" that I'm buying supplies for burning man, and starts recommending me things like baby wipes, which are completely unrelated (naively) to things like lag screws, rebar pullers, etc.

Not until "Basic Usage" do I find out in writing what rebar potentially is: "Rebar3 comes with templates for creating applications, library applications (with no start/2), releases and plugins" So it's a project templating tool?

The rest - dependency management and building, is handled quite well by tools like Rebar.

Rebar does not even guarantee repeatable builds I think you're setting the bar a little high there.

Rebar 3 seems to improve in this area but is still alpha.