Took a while to find out what BEAM was. It's the run-time interpreter for Erlang.[1]
It's not in Acronym Finder. There are many hits for BEAM, but this isn't in the top 10.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
Took a while to find out what BEAM was. It's the run-time interpreter for Erlang.[1]
It's not in Acronym Finder. There are many hits for BEAM, but this isn't in the top 10.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
Not just Erlang, but all the other languages like Elixir (powers Discord), Gleam and others.
I guess you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 (as per XKCD).
I’ve never really looked into Erlang or other similar languages, but it’s come up often enough on HN that I know of BEAM.
To learn more about Erlang, OP needs only look back at the threads on the day HN went Erlang-mad:
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
Congratulations