Comment by giancarlostoro
12 hours 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.
12 hours 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.
A lot of people know that Beam is an open-source unified programming model for defining data processing pipeline, both batch and streaming (B[atch and Str]eam), in a way that’s portable across different execution engines. That's why people are asking to clarify what Beam is before sending us to watch the conference recordings.
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 ...
Those context clues do nothing for people who have no idea about BEAM but know about Beam and just think it's an uppercase version of it.
> ... fascinated with BEAM, how it allowed easy spawning of processes ...
beam runner spawns worker processes very easily
> ... the appeal of BEAM languages ...
You can write Beam workflows in Java, Python, Go and Scala
> ... haven’t read The BEAM Book yet ...
https://www.amazon.com/Streaming-Systems-Where-Large-Scale-P...
> ... examples are written in Elm ...
Hm, maybe they added Elm SDK for the Beam, but why?...
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It’s poor writing.