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Erlang: The Movie (Fixed Audio)

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “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.”

    Concise demo of Erlang fault tolerance with its creators.

    riobard, 2019-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Goodbye Joe”

  2. “the most glorious 11 minutes of some programmers explaining how their creation works you will ever see”

    Creators demonstrate live Erlang system by phoning each other.

    ashton314, 2021-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Why Erlang?”

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Topics: erlang, fault tolerance, concurrency, telecom, programming languages

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