THE VIDEO SHELF · erlang
Erlang: The Movie
A short film about the Erlang language, showing telecom systems built from lightweight processes and demonstrating hot code swapping. It is an edited version of the original Ericsson video.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN treats it as a classic that shows what Erlang was built for: robust, concurrent telecom systems with live upgrades.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- dawsdesign
- Topic
- erlang
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2021
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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I had never watched Erlang the Movie before, this is truly a gem: [VIDEO] This is a great way to explain the benefits of Erlang. Anyone who has tried to write robust, distributed systems should immediately see the benefits. Even all of these years later.
jimbokun on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenchesTheir original video demo of hot code swapping is also a classic worth checking out: [VIDEO] That got a lot of programmers interested in Erlang ~10yrs ago.
SkyMarshal on Hacker News · 2017-05
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