Note dell’episodio
Coding Chats episode 74 - Erik Stenman talks to John Crickett about the BEAM virtual machine — the runtime behind Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam. Built by Ericsson in the 1980s for telephone switches, it was designed for fault tolerance and concurrency from day one, yet never achieved mainstream popularity despite being technically superior to many alternatives.
The discussion covers what makes BEAM unique: lightweight isolated processes, a "let it crash" fault philosophy, and powerful built-in introspection. Erik also shares practical lessons from production use and explains why newer languages…
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