Robert Virding on the Roots of Erlang
May 6, 2021
Elixir Wizards
Season Six: BEAM Magic
The theme of Season Six was BEAM Magic — taking a look at what gets handled under the hood with Elixir, other languages that run on the BEAM, and talking about how much magic is the right amount — there are a lot of strongly held opinions on this, that are reflected in how much “magic” is included in different programming languages.
What is hidden by programming languages? How do developers find varying levels of hidden functionality to be alternately useful or problematic — or maybe both!
Season Six aired from May to August of 2021.
We wanted to build fault tolerant systems, and things are going to go wrong. They always do. You need to just accept the fact things are going to go wrong. How can you build systems that can handle errors?— Robert Virding in S6E1 on The Roots of Erlang
Episode Listing
The Right Amount of Magic with Erik Person
May 13, 2021
Scaling and The Growth Curve with Francesco Cesarini
June 3, 2021
Testing Elixir with Jeffrey Matthias and Andrea Leopardi
July 15, 2021
The Bridge Between Elixir and Zig with Isaac Yonemoto
August 5, 2021
Delving Deeper into Magic with Quinn Wilton
August 12, 2021
Wrapping up BEAM Magic with Amos King
August 26, 2021