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Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel
A humorous 10-minute parody sequel to Erlang: The Movie, in which Erlang's creators discuss the aging language and meet a surprise helper. It plays on the Outlaw Techno Psychobitch joke for OTP.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN loves it as a funny, shorter sequel and even uses it to introduce Erlang in university classes.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- gar1t
- Topic
- erlang
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 15
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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And if you haven't seen it, here is some classic. “Erlang: the Movie”: — [LINK] And sequel “Erlang: the Movie II”: — [VIDEO] Don't think wtf. Just watch.
lelf on Hacker News · 2013-05
In Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video]I don't care about downvotes, I thought that video was hilarious and enjoy sharing it. He's the same guy behind "MongoDB is web scale" and "Erlang the Movie II", which I'd also highly recommend: [LINK] [VIDEO]
davidw on Hacker News · 2016-10
In The State of JavaScript – Survey resultsI use Erlang the Movie and its Sequel [VIDEO] whenever I teach my classes at Oxford Uni. #studentlife :-)
francescoc on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.
