THE VIDEO SHELF · erlang
Erlang: The Movie
A short Ericsson film demoing Erlang, showing concurrent processes, debugging tools, and hot code reloading, including crashing parts of a running system while calls continue.
Why HN readers recommended it
A beloved classic that HN recommends as the quickest way to see why Erlang is special.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- uncertainyesterday
- Topic
- erlang
- Format
- demo
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2026
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”: — [VIDEO] And sequel “Erlang: the Movie II”: — [LINK] Don't think wtf. Just watch.
lelf on Hacker News · 2013-05
In Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework [video]There’s also “Erlang the Movie”; the designers of Erlang demo some of the qualities of the Erlang system in a delightful way: [VIDEO]
mnd on Hacker News · 2017-01
In What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)The author doesn't talk a lot about preemptive scheduling, which is probably the best thing about the Erlang virtual machine. This video explains what preemptive scheduling is and why it is extremely useful: [LINK] First, the speaker creates an application endpoint that runs into an …
randomstudent on Hacker News · 2017-08
In Elixir in Depth – Reading and personal notes
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