This was an decent comparison / contrast. It did make me wonder how they're coming along with the BEAM jit these days, I found this from a while back: http://ww

This was an decent comparison / contrast. It did make me wonder how they're coming along with the BEAM jit these days, I found this from a while back: http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2014/frej-drejhammar http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2014/frej-drejhammar It also reminded me how much I wish there was an actual specification for BEAM, finding out the details of the how the bytecodes work is an arduous task compared to the JVM where everything is explicitly stated. IMHO both VMs are excellent in their own right, the HotSpot JIT is incredible, but I still can't deny that I find the beam process model on concurrency more elegant than the JVM one, though in practice I've only toyed in erlang so I have no real-world grounds of comparison there. Does anyone by chance?