Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

This was in a top level comment on this post. It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages. Essentially performant, fault-tolerant parallelism by design. ▶ this video If you need to break out into SIMD, you also have NX at your disposal. And Rustler/Zigler provide you an escape hatch to low-level languages, with the latter you can code in Zig inline link link link

For people wondering about what Elixir and the BEAM are offering, for a quick overview of the best features of this stack see [this talk]( ▶ this video ). If anyone starts learning Elixir now: I can recommend using VSCode with ElixirLS extension. Also: pragprog books, Sasa Juric's book. If you like video tutorials I've heard good things about PragDave's course.

Saša Jurić's Solid Ground talk is a lovely demonstration of Elixir's processes: ▶ this video (Saša is also the author of Elixir in Action; a highly recommend read once you have your head around Elixir's fundamentals.)