Writing your own BEAM

I think its written for people who already know what the BEAM is. The BEAM is the VM for Erlang or Elixir, similar to how Java has the JVM and C# has .NET essentially.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by jedmeyers » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 9:37 PM UTC

giancarlostoro wrote: post #5

efitz wrote: post #3

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I think its written for people who already know what the BEAM is. The BEAM is the VM for Erlang or Elixir, similar to how Java has the JVM and C# has .NET essentially.

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Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by MeetingsBrowser » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 9:54 PM UTC

efitz wrote: post #3

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> This is my Code BEAM Europe 2025 talk, converted to a blogpost.

The blog is a text version of the talk, not an invitation to watch the talk.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by MeetingsBrowser » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

jedmeyers wrote: post #6

giancarlostoro wrote: post #5

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I think its written for people who already know what the BEAM is. The BEAM is the VM for Erlang or Elixir, similar to how Java has the JVM and C# has .NET essentially.

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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 ...

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by depr » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 10:16 PM UTC

efitz wrote: post #3

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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 to write a comment that only detracts from a possible conversation.

If you can't bring yourself to search for 5 seconds and find out what an article is about, maybe you just close it and move on.

Re: Writing your own BEAM

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Post by ohyoutravel » Mon, Nov 10, 2025, 10:29 PM UTC

MeetingsBrowser wrote: post #8

jedmeyers wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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 ...

It’s poor writing.