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Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

Solid Ground // Saša Jurić on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2017–2023.

EMPEX Conference

talk · intermediate · evergreen

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Sasa Juric's EMPEX talk demonstrates Elixir and Erlang's process model and what makes the BEAM runtime distinctive, such as fault-tolerant parallelism by design.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

people recommended it
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separate months
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strong recommendations
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discussed on HN
2017–2023
“It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages.”
— h0l0cube, Sep 2023, in “My favorite Erlang program (2013)”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

h0l0cubeSep 2023Strongly recommends

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. ▶ this video If you need to break out into SIMD, you also have NX at your disposal. And Rustler/Zigler provide you an escape hatch to low-level languages, with the latter you can code in Zig inline [link] [link] [link]

in “My favorite Erlang program (2013)” · View on HN

rehemiauJan 2018Recommends

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]( ▶ this video ). If anyone starts learning Elixir now: I can recommend using VSCode with ElixirLS extension. Also: pragprog books, Sasa Juric's book. If you like video tutorials I've heard good things about PragDave's course.

in “Elixir v1.6 released: code formatter, dynamic supervisors, and more” · View on HN

auxbussDec 2017Recommends

Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes: ▶ this video (Saša is also the author of Elixir in Action; a highly recommend read once you have your head around Elixir's fundamentals.)

in “Elixir multiple processes: Basics” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Functional programmingDistributed systemselixirerlangbeamconcurrencyfault tolerance