Sasa Juric's EMPEX talk demonstrates Elixir and Erlang's process model and what makes the BEAM runtime distinctive, such as fault-tolerant parallelism by design.
Why Hacker News points people here: Recommended as the best short overview of why the BEAM and Elixir stand apart from other runtimes.
“It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages.”HN comment, 2023
“It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages.”
Perfectly articulates what sets BEAM apart: fault-tolerant parallelism by design.
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This was in a top level comment on this post. It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages. Essentially performant, fault-tolerant parallelism by design. this video If you need to break out into SIMD, you also have NX at your disposal. And Rustler/Zigler provide you an escape hatch to low-level languages, with the latter you can code in Zig inline linklinklink
RecommendsauxbussDec 2017
“Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes”
Lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes.
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Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes: this video (Saša is also the author of Elixir in Action; a highly recommend read once you have your head around Elixir's fundamentals.)
RecommendsrehemiauJan 2018
“for a quick overview of the best features of this stack see”
Quick overview of best features of Elixir and BEAM.
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For people wondering about what Elixir and the BEAM are offering, for a quick overview of the best features of this stack see [this talk]( this video ). If anyone starts learning Elixir now: I can recommend using VSCode with ElixirLS extension. Also: pragprog books, Sasa Juric's book. If you like video tutorials I've heard good things about PragDave's course.
