Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

EMPEX Conference

Topic

elixir beam processes

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2023

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From the original HN conversations

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• 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 …

• 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.)

• 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 …