Show HN: unix subprocesses for Erlang with reading with backpressure

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I considered messing around with your project, then immediately gave up due to lack of documentation. Sure I could spend the time reading through all your code, but one of the benefits of using a library by someone else is I can treat it as a module, learn just the interface, and be productive. Check out the mongodb driver for erlang for a great example of documentation:

https://github.com/comtihon/mongodb-erlang

> [...] then immediately gave up due to lack of documentation.

What? I paid special attention to the quality of EDoc documentation, and now you say I didn't provide any? Not to mention that the application you gave as a role model is documented in a sloopy way, with many functions not described at all, missing argument names left and right, all private exports and modules included in published docs, and lack of formatting on top of that.

My apologies, and why I linked the other project. README goes a long ways, cause at the end of the day you're trying to release a project in an ecosystem where (for better or worse) that's what gets shown to users looking at your project.

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