#erlang
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The Erlang ecosystem, including the BEAM VM and OTP framework, is mature and stable. Its community is supportive and drama-free, focusing on practical solutions – a significant advantage for long-term project stability. #TechCommunity 5/5
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Many programmers find Erlang expressive and elegant. Its features, like powerful pattern matching and recursion, make complex problem-solving intuitive and enjoyable, leading to a 'fun' programming experience. 💡 #Programming 4/5
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Erlang excels at building fault-tolerant, concurrent, and distributed systems. It's particularly strong for internal infrastructure, control planes, and real-time applications where high reliability is paramount. A go-to for critical backend services! #DistributedSystems 2/5
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Overview: Hacker News discussed the journey of discovering Erlang, highlighting its unique strengths in concurrency and fault tolerance for robust, distributed systems. The conversation also touched on its challenges and trade-offs compared to other languages. #Erlang 1/5
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
How I fell in love with Erlang
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Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news
How I Fell in Love with Erlang · Bora Gönül
boragonul.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Solutions for BEAM portability include tools like Burrito and Nix, which help package Erlang/Elixir applications. Static compilation is also suggested as a robust method to overcome cross-distribution compilation hurdles. #Deployment 4/5
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
BEAM's design earns high praise for its architecture, particularly its robust process model and efficient register-based approach. Users appreciate its clean, minimalistic implementation, finding it a fascinating piece of engineering. #Erlang 2/5
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Overview: A Hacker News discussion explored implementing BEAM (Erlang Abstract Machine), focusing on its design, portability challenges, historical context, and whether a basic BEAM explanation was needed in the original post. Key insights emerged on architecture & deployment. #HackerNews 1/5
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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How I Fell in Love with Erlang · Bora Gönül
boragonul.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Xqerl – Erlang XQuery 3.1 Processor
L: https://zadean.github.io/xqerl/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885677
posted on 2025.11.11 at 04:48:05 (c=0, p=3)
November 11, 2025 at 2:31 PM
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our next Meetup has just been announced!

See you at IDEA KITCHEN Coworking on November 24th!

www.meetup.com/elixir-munic...

#Elixir #ElixirLang #Erlang #Munich #Meetup
Elixir & Erlang Meetup - November 2025, Mon, Nov 24, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
We're excited to host our November 2025 Elixir & Erlang Meetup! **Agenda**: 18:30 - Doors open, networking, food, drinks 19:00 - **Code BEAM Europe 2025 Highlights** 19:
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November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I Fell in Love with Erlang (boragonul.com)

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November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
- native support for UUIDv7
- substantial speedups for bulk operations, purge operations and any btree operations by introducing a cache
- support for Debian Trixie
- Erlang 26 as minimum version
- Allow safe downgrading of CouchDB versions

Which makes it a pretty cool release :)

AMA.
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I Fell in Love with Erlang https:// boragonul.com/post/falling-in- love-with-erlang # HackerNews # I # Fell # in # Love # with # Erlang # Erlang # Love # Programming # Languages # Functional # Programming # Hacker # News

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November 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
📰 I Fell in Love with Erlang

💬 Solid article! The command line interface gets love, and there’s a nostalgic touch with `> cd ..`. Overall, positive vibes! 🎉

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785300
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I Fell in Love with Erlang

#HackerNews

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November 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I Fell in Love with Erlang | Discussion
How I Fell in Love with Erlang · Bora Gönül
boragonul.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I Fell in Love with Erlang
L: https://boragonul.com/post/falling-in-love-with-erlang
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785300
posted on 2025.11.01 at 17:00:33 (c=2, p=10)
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
@osma

Project website here:
https://bonfirenetworks.org/

Source code here:
https://github.com/bonfire-networks/bonfire-app

Written mainly in Elixir, part of the Erlang ecosystem -- which sounds a technically solid choice, but a bit niche, and not one I'm familiar with.
Bonfire
A federated social network for individuals and communities to design, operate and control their own digital lives.
bonfirenetworks.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM