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The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences · 16 recommenders · 14 months

Sasa Juric explains what makes Erlang and Elixir suited to server-side systems, focusing on the BEAM concurrency model rather than syntax or ecosystem. He demonstrates processes, supervision, and fault tolerance.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: It is HN's favorite pitch for Elixir and the BEAM, credited with convincing many people to adopt them.

16 recommenders7 strong recommendations2019–2024
Functional programmingDistributed systems#elixir#erlang#beam#fault tolerance#supervision trees#actor model

“Watch this if you want to understand why so many people fall in love with it.”

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