This is the gist of it: "The primary motivator for Lumen's development was the ability to compile Elixir applications that could target WebAssembly, enabling u

This is the gist of it: "The primary motivator for Lumen's development was the ability to compile Elixir applications that could target WebAssembly, enabling use of Elixir as a language for frontend development." I had to dig to lean what BEAM is :) "Bogumil Hausman next machine was called BEAM (Bogdan’s Erlang Abstract Machine). It was a hybrid machine that could execute both native code and threaded code with an interpreter. That allowed customers to compile their time-critial modules to native code and all other modules to threaded BEAM code. The threaded BEAM in itself was faster than JAM code." http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/ http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/ I now feel a little less bad that I couldn't figure out the acronym :)