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EVM stood for "Erlang Virtual Machine" (of which BEAM is one implementation) before Ethereum even existed.
by yellowapple 3y ago
EVM stood for "Erlang Virtual Machine" (of which BEAM is one implementation) before Ethereum even existed.
- octacat 3y agoExcept majority of people uses BEAM name for the last 13 years. Erlang VM or Erlang Virtual Machine is ok too. EVM name is just super not-popular, idk why.
- yellowapple 3y agoErlang's creators use EVM, which is where I learned it from. Not sure why it didn't catch on, either; I guess for a long-enough while BEAM was the only EVM implementation in common use, so it became the Xerox™ or Velcro™ of Erlang virtual machines lol