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Recommended as the best short overview of why the BEAM and Elixir stand apart from other runtimes.
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.
“It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages.” (HN, 2023)
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 [link] [link] [link]
Perfectly articulates what sets BEAM apart: fault-tolerant parallelism by design.
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.)
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.
Quick overview of best features of Elixir and BEAM.
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