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Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

EMPEX Conference · 14K views · 2017-10-14 · 35:15

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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.

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

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2017–2023

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h0l0cube · 2023-09 · Strong recommendation

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. [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]

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rehemiau · 2018-01 · Recommendation

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]( [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.

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auxbuss · 2017-12 · Recommendation

Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes: [VIDEO] (Saša is also the author of Elixir in Action; a highly recommend read once you have your head around Elixir's fundamentals.)

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