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by shepherdjerred 726 days ago
What can BEAM do that other languages can't? Do you have a favorite learning resource for it?
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lumannnn 725 days ago
Check out this presentation :)

"The Soul of Erlang and Elixir by Sasa Juric"

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE

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jamie_ca 726 days ago
Here's the meme https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/gpdlp4/the_more_i_l...

It's not so much that it does things others can't, it's that it does all the things, running in the same application space, and things like background jobs, or a caching layer, or cron are all things that most stacks these days need to sort via another library, and Erlang/Elixir apps just do it all on BEAM.

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