[hatefulheart]

Agreed.

The tone in which people like the parent comment is disgraceful. I’m sorry this is hacker news and hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed. It is respected and admired as a great piece of engineering to be studied by all hackers.

[mikestorrent]

I didn't know what it was, so I used the grand information retrieval device I was already sitting at to look it up

[colecut]

I knew what the BEAM was, but in his defense, searching "BEAM" doesn't bring up anything relevant in the first few pages I looked at.

[Dylan16807]

Disgraceful? It's a pretty polite request.

> hackers know that BEAM is the Erlang VM, no introduction or explanation needed

This is some pretty intense gatekeeping, pal.

[jabbywocker]

Can’t wait until we collectively drop whining about “gatekeeping”

[jedmeyers]

The curse of knowledge in this thread is mind boggling.