> Then I learned that the Achilles' heel of the BEAM VM is that if native code crashes it takes the whole thing with it People talk about "let it crash" in BEA

> Then I learned that the Achilles' heel of the BEAM VM is that if native code crashes it takes the whole thing with it People talk about "let it crash" in BEAM world, but advice I got that made understanding things a whole lot easier is to focus on recovering more than preventing crashes. I've found Elixir to be better at both not crashing and better at recovering. The abstractions for both just make more sense to me. That being said, I wouldn't have been able to understand those concepts before learning Elixir. So I say learn Elixir and OTP well, and decide for yourself.