Erlang/OTP virtual machine and base applications This package contains the Erlang/OTP runtime implementation, which is configured and built without HiPE support (compiles to byte-code only), and minimal set of Erlang applications: compiler - compiles Erlang code to byte-code; erts - the Erlang runtime system application; kernel - code necessary to run the Erlang runtime system itself; sasl - the system architecture support libraries application; stdlib - modules for manipulating lists, strings, files etc.