Post on 10-Aug-2020
The soul of Erlang and ElixirSaša Jurić@sasajuric
BEAM languages
ErlangElixirLFE
AlpacaGleam
…
process... do_something(...) ...
... spawn(fn -> ... end) ...
process A
... foo(...) bar(...) ...
process B
... baz(...) qux(...) ...
send( process_b, some_message )
receive do message -> handle(message) end
process a process b
BEAM (Erlang VM)
BEAM (Erlang VM)
scheduler scheduler scheduler scheduler
BEAM (Erlang VM)
CPU CPU CPU CPU
client
system
client
system
sum(1..3)
6
client
connection
client
connection
client
connection
connection
calculation
spawn
send result & stop
uniformity
simpler developmentsimpler testing
simpler deploymentsimpler maintenance
improved collaboration
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