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Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

EMPEX Conference · talk · Watch on YouTube

Functional programmingDistributed systems

What it is

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 recommends it

Recommended as the best short overview of why the BEAM and Elixir stand apart from other runtimes.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages.”

    Perfectly articulates what sets BEAM apart: fault-tolerant parallelism by design.

    h0l0cube, 2023-09 · Strong recommendation · in “My favorite Erlang program (2013)”

  2. “Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes”

    Lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes.

    auxbuss, 2017-12 · Recommendation · in “Elixir multiple processes: Basics”

  3. “for a quick overview of the best features of this stack see”

    Quick overview of best features of Elixir and BEAM.

    rehemiau, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: elixir, erlang, beam, concurrency, fault tolerance

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