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I've heard this, but honestly to me it just seems "specialized for writing and running reliable software".
by jononomo 4y ago
I've heard this, but honestly to me it just seems "specialized for writing and running reliable software".
- ElemenoPicuares 4y agoSeemingly reliable for a specific type of problem, though. Most reliable software doesn't require a distributed network to be reliable, and I don't think binary execution on BEAM is any more inherently reliable than the JVM, right?
- jononomo 4y agoThe BEAM is designed for a software architecture approach called OTP in the Erlang community -- it is designed around trees of process supervision. So there is an entire robust framework for reliability really built in as a primary concern for the BEAM. https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/des_princ.html https://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/des_princ.html