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The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences · talk · Watch on YouTube

Functional programmingDistributed systems

What it is

Sasa Juric explains what makes Erlang and Elixir suited to server-side systems, focusing on the BEAM concurrency model rather than syntax or ecosystem. He demonstrates processes, supervision, and fault tolerance.

Why Hacker News recommends it

It is HN's favorite pitch for Elixir and the BEAM, credited with convincing many people to adopt them.

  • 16 people recommended it
  • 14 different months
  • 7 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Everyone I show this video to [1] just says”

    Persuasive demo of Elixir's strengths for backend work.

    sho, 2019-12 · Strong recommendation · in “We 30x'd our Node parallelism”

  2. “This video is instrumental in giving me the confidence to do what I did”

    Gave the confidence to replace a Python stack with Elixir.

    dnautics, 2020-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Crystal 0.33”

  3. “The best video (by far) was The Soul of Erlang and Elixir”

    Best video on BEAM as a platform for communication.

    irq-1, 2020-05 · Strong recommendation · in “Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines”

  4. “really sold me on Elixir”

    Talk that convinced the commenter to adopt Elixir.

    probotect0r, 2020-09 · Strong recommendation · in “YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills”

  5. “Watch this if you want to understand why so many people fall in love with it.”

    Explains why so many developers fall in love with Elixir.

    jtwebman, 2021-06 · Strong recommendation · in “An Elixir adoption success story”

  6. “one of the best demos of Elixir, Erlang and modern distributed computing in general”

    One of the best demos of Elixir and distributed computing.

    sph, 2024-03 · Strong recommendation · in “Why Elixir (2014)”

  7. “Really one of the best presentations to show what you may get out of adopting Elixir.”

    Shows what you may gain by adopting Elixir.

    lumannnn, 2024-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)”

  8. “I feel like this talk does a great job of answering that question”

    Talk explaining what makes Erlang and Elixir special.

    gregors, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: elixir, erlang, beam, fault tolerance, supervision trees, actor model

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