[socketcluster]

The Node.js community had figured this out long before BEAM or even Elixir existed.

People tried to introduce threads to Node.js but there was push-back for the very reasons mentioned in this article and so we never got threads.

The JavaScript languages communities watch, nod, and go back to work.

[pentacent_hq]

> The Node.js community had figured this out long before BEAM or even Elixir existed.

Work on the BEAM started in the 1990s, over ten years before the first release of Node in 2009.

[masklinn]

And BEAM was the reimplementation of the Erlang runtime, the actual model is part of the language semantics which was pretty stable by the late 80s, just with a Prolog runtime way too slow for production use.

[hlieberman]

Forget Node.js; _Javascript_ hadn't even been invented yet when Erlang and BEAM first debuted.

[leoc]

You may be thinking of some recent round of publicity for BEAM, but BEAM is a bit older than JavaScript.

[socketcluster]

Haha. I guess the BEAM people can nod down at me with contempt and I nod down at the Elixir folks.

[seanclayton]

at least you're doubling down on your ignorance!

[worthless-trash]

I think the author is trying to be clever to parody what was written in tfa.

[xtoilette]

BEAM predates node js