Erlang in 100 Seconds

Erlang is a functional programming language know for message-based concurrency model. Its BEAM virtual machine is still used by modern languages like Elixir and Gleam. Learn the basics of Erlang in this quick tutorial.

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- What is Erlang?
- Who created Erlang/OTP?
- Basics of Erlang
- Elixir vs Erlang
- Gleam vs Erlang
- What is the BEAM vm?
- How to get started with Erlang

[hw]

Finally, something that isn't coming for my job

[TechyMage]

Adding "fluent in erlang" to my resume

[mahinchowdhury]

Guy 1: ""So what do you wanna call this language we made?"
Guy ??...."

[JohnneyleeRollins]

“Let it crash” – Joe Armstrong, economist

[fabilikesbutter]

Erlang so powerful, it turned 100 seconds into 163.

[Soul-Burn]

This is clearly a precursor to "Gleam in 100 seconds", considering it's recent 1.0 release.

[pranaygaming]

A FireShip Video where u actually feel its calm and soothing in the tech world

[devgoneweird]

Important thing about those processes is that they are very cheap to create and you can have lots of them at the same time.
While it might sound unimpressive today, it did even 10-15 years ago, and this language is older than that.

[metropolis]

Let's not forget it STILL runs the worlds telecommunications software. Plenty of people still want data, txt, or calls on their phones out there!

[krateskim]

100 seconds of gleam, waiting for it, thank you in advance

[blackjackjester]

erlang did define the very popular actor model, and even more so, the lightweight processes don't just scale to thousands, they scale into the millions.

And that doesn't even count the built in support for passing messages between machines and supporting distributed systems through nearly invisible abstractions, and providing very capable distributed caching through ETS and basic persistence through mnesia db.

OTP is an absolute monster of a platform. Its a shame it's so esoteric to so many people.

[oakley]

Elixir is genuinely one of my favourite languages ever, I dont get to use it often, but it beautiful, thanks erlanngg

[TobbeEger]

Having worked with Erlang during my university days, and Elixir professionally, I would argue that the BEAM based programming languages offers the best model and support for concurrency out of every major language out there.

[ausd]

Erlang really intrigues me. And with Gleam running on top of it, I'm super Beam-curious now...

[tedb]

Was literally checking your channel for new vids about 5mins ago. Good that I retried

[brachypelma]

Now that you've done Erlang, Gleam would be a logical next topic for a 100-second video.

[smikkelbeer]

Right now, I am literally reviewing my university lectures' powerpoint about Erlang and just now thought "hmm maybe fireship has a video on this" and then I see he uploaded this 2 hours ago... There's no way this guy isn't spying on me.

[dough-pizza]

The syntax seems like what a non programmer would imagine code looks like

[MultiMojo]

Fun fact - Erlang still underpins the telecommunications systems that connect your phone to the cellular tower/base station and beyond.

[sososo]

1:17 I love how you made the period red.