Comment by giancarlostoro
3 months ago
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.
3 months ago
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.
> similar to how Java has the JVM and C# has .NET essentially.
I'm pretty sure that in this analogy, C# has the CLR.
Yeah, I always called it .NET runtime instead because everyone who isnt deep into .NET will understand what is meant.
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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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It’s poor writing.