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Erlang: The Movie (Fixed Audio)

Name: Erlang: The Movie (Fixed Audio)
Description: A 12-minute film in which Erlang's creators demonstrate the language's fault tolerance and live-system features, including phoning each other to show it working. This version has fixed audio.

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2 HN users recommended this demo in 2 different months between 2019 and 2021.

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2 strong recommendations 2 citations HackerTube score 3

HN recommends it as a charming, concise demonstration of what makes Erlang special, from the people who built it.

A 12-minute film in which Erlang's creators demonstrate the language's fault tolerance and live-system features, including phoning each other to show it working. This version has fixed audio.

Pull quote: “the most glorious 11 minutes of some programmers explaining how their creation works you will ever see” (HN, 2021)

Also tagged: erlang fault tolerance, erlang, fault tolerance, concurrency, telecom, programming languages

What Hacker News said

4 labeled comments from the HN archive; up to 20 are kept per video, favoring different commenters. Each one links back to the original thread.

Strongly recommends riobard April 2019 under Goodbye Joe

Concise demo of Erlang fault tolerance with its creators.

Fred probably forgot to mention it, but Joe, Mike, and Robert starred in a short film Erlang: The Movie , a very fine and concise demonstration of fault-tolerance of Erlang. The film has some magic power that I cannot describe but made me watching it over and over again. YouTube link to the film with fixed audio: [this video]

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Strongly recommends ashton314 September 2021 under Why Erlang?

Creators demonstrate live Erlang system by phoning each other.

This is almost certainly a reference to Erlang: The Movie [1] which is the most glorious 11 minutes of some programmers explaining how their creation works you will ever see. In the video, the three call each other to demonstrate what happens real-time in an Erlang system. For the impatient, the telephone conversation starts at about minute 3. [1]: [this video]

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Citations, criticism and jokes

Cites it rkangel May 2020 under The unreasonable effectiveness of declarative programming

Uses 'declarative programming' to mean functional programming.

Interestingly, if you watch the Erlang: The Movie ( [this video] ) they use the term 'declarative programming' to refer to what we would now call 'functional programming'. It's an interesting way of thinking about it - these sort of declarative interfaces are very simple in languages with first class function support.

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Cites it ashton314 September 2021 under Why Erlang?

Version with fixed audio.

This is the same "movie", but the audio has been fixed to not play out of just the left ear: [this video]

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