BEAM
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14recommend
2warn against
Nov 2, 2025first mention
Oct 5, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I'm continuously grateful for the BEAM's support for fine-grained processes”
“The underlying C-based infrastructure is so good”
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“The big ones for me are the actor processes sending each other messages”
“A lot is built into the BEAM by default”
“I use Elixir not because of typed/untyped, but because of BEAM and OTP.”
Caveats and dissent
“"puzzle is a few days old" is incorrect”
“the overhead from beamvm causes a 3s delay”
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Who recommends it in their own words
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All comments 22
“"puzzle is a few days old" is incorrect”
“I'm continuously grateful for the BEAM's support for fine-grained processes”
“The underlying C-based infrastructure is so good”
“The big ones for me are the actor processes sending each other messages”
“A lot is built into the BEAM by default”
“I believe BEAM bytecode is now JIT-ed.”
“What about https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/beamasm.html”
“I use Elixir not because of typed/untyped, but because of BEAM and OTP.”
“Even if the BEAM VM is slower and has a few annoying sharp edges, its strengths nullify its weaknesses”
“I love the BEAM”
“I'm running BEAM in production for almost 8 years”
“the overhead from beamvm causes a 3s delay”
“The BEAM was designed for exactly this”
“I feel like it matches Go or BEAM performance now”
“the BEAM can give you superpowers that no other platform can”
“Having done it for some years now, the BEAM kinda has”
“its true strength lies in the BEAM, an incredibly well-architected piece of software”
“the BEAM is already ahead with nano-services”
“Or compare it to BEAM that can have processes crash all day long and still continue to work.”
“BEAM (Erlang, Elixir) provides hot-swappable code and lots more”
“one can statically compile the BEAM for Linux exactly the same as the JVM”
“BEAM builds into it a number of the features for which we use orchestration, observability, just simpler and (generally) more flexible.”