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Writing your own BEAM

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Re: Writing your own BEAM

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observationist wrote: post #13
depr wrote: post #9

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When can we be done with these cheap comments? It has really become tiring to have a comment tree on every HN post for people who don't know what the article is about. As the author often didn't submit their own article it is just a complaint with no possible resolution. Instead of taking a few seconds to find out what the article is about and maybe even clarifying it for your fellow readers, you are taking that time…

> I was always fascinated with BEAM (Bogdan Erlang Abstract Machine, a VM for languages like Erlang and Gleam) and how it allowed easy spawning of processes that didn’t share state, allowed for sending and selectively receiving messages, and linking to each other thus enabling creation of supervision trees. That's all it takes. When you're writing about a niche topic (and nearly everything and anything interesting is…

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Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by FredPret »

I have learnt to love and embrace the BEAM.

Wikipedia says "Originally BEAM was short for Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine, named after Bogumil "Bogdan" Hausman, who wrote the original version, but the name may also be referred to as Björn's Erlang Abstract Machine, after Björn Gustavsson, who wrote and maintains the current version."

Whether the B is for Bogdan or Bjorn, there's something really fun and Space Quest-y about it.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by Dylan16807 »

hatefulheart wrote: post #15
depr wrote: post #9

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When can we be done with these cheap comments? It has really become tiring to have a comment tree on every HN post for people who don't know what the article is about. As the author often didn't submit their own article it is just a complaint with no possible resolution. Instead of taking a few seconds to find out what the article is about and maybe even clarifying it for your fellow readers, you are taking that time…

Agreed. The tone in which people like the parent comment is disgraceful. I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed. It is respected and admired as a great piece of engineering to be studied by all hackers.

Disgraceful? It's a pretty polite request.

> hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed

This is some pretty intense gatekeeping, pal.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by jabbywocker »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #23
hatefulheart wrote: post #15

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Agreed. The tone in which people like the parent comment is disgraceful. I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed. It is respected and admired as a great piece of engineering to be studied by all hackers.

Disgraceful? It's a pretty polite request. > hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed This is some pretty intense gatekeeping, pal.

Can’t wait until we collectively drop whining about “gatekeeping”

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by Dylan16807 »

jabbywocker wrote: post #24
Dylan16807 wrote: post #23

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Disgraceful? It's a pretty polite request. > hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed This is some pretty intense gatekeeping, pal.

Can’t wait until we collectively drop whining about “gatekeeping”

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Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by colecut »

mikestorrent wrote: post #17
hatefulheart wrote: post #15

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Agreed. The tone in which people like the parent comment is disgraceful. I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed. It is respected and admired as a great piece of engineering to be studied by all hackers.

I didn't know what it was, so I used the grand information retrieval device I was already sitting at to look it up

I knew what the BEAM was, but in his defense, searching "BEAM" doesn't bring up anything relevant in the first few pages I looked at.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by jabbywocker »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #25
jabbywocker wrote: post #24

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Can’t wait until we collectively drop whining about “gatekeeping”

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He wasn’t an ass about it. And the people who don’t know what BEAM is can easily google their way to more information than they’d ever be able to get from a comment here.

Edit: I will say that’s a better take. It’s at least blatant about it being the personal attack you intended it to be instead of passive aggressively couching it behind the pretense of caring about community. If you want to be shitty to people, just do it. I’d prefer honest assholes than weasely manipulators.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by MeetingsBrowser »

jedmeyers wrote: post #19
MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #8

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I think there are plenty of context clues in the first few sentences. > ... fascinated with BEAM, how it allowed easy spawning of processes ... > ... the appeal of BEAM languages ... > ... haven’t read The BEAM Book yet ... > ... examples are written in Elm ...

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This feels like willful ignorance.

Can you really read the blog without realizing that there is a possibility this isn’t referring to Apache beam?

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by Dylan16807 »

jabbywocker wrote: post #27
Dylan16807 wrote: post #25

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He wasn’t an ass about it. And the people who don’t know what BEAM is can easily google their way to more information than they’d ever be able to get from a comment here. Edit: I will say that’s a better take. It’s at least blatant about it being the personal attack you intended it to be instead of passive aggressively couching it behind the pretense of caring about community. If you want to be shitty to people, just…

"I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed." is being an ass to a lot of people.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by jedmeyers »

Jtsummers wrote: post #20
jedmeyers wrote: post #19

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Who would look at something called The BEAM Book with a link to [1] and think that it refers to a book with a completely different title? [1] https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/

Because of you ask a person who works on Beam about “the Beam book” thats the one they are going to recommend. Who knows that the BEAM book is literally called “the BEAM Book”? There are many books like that, “the SRE book” is actually Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, etc.
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