kvakvs/beam-wisdoms

Wiki containing pieces of information and knowledge about BEAM Virtual machine (which runs Erlang/OTP and other BEAM-based languages).

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Welcome to Beam Wisdoms	2	May 19, 2025
Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)	22	Dec 24, 2022
Like this? - https://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/index.html on Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations	0	Sep 12, 2021
Beam/Erlang/Elixir Concept Explanations	355	Sep 12, 2021
I guess the first and foremost for an ELI5 is WTF is BEAM VM? The "BEAM VM ELI5" page doesn't explain what it is specifically, and how it's not a Hypervisor VM, but as a bytecode interpreter in Erlang. When I see 'VM' I think first of a hypervisor virtual machine. Maybe I'm a bit of a curmudgeon,… on Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)	0	Apr 21, 2021
Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)	247	Apr 21, 2021
These resources are commonly recommended: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pwlvy3zz9M&t=833s, https://blog.stenmans.org/theBeamBook/, http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/ on Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist	0	Apr 20, 2021
There's also BEAM Wisdoms: http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/ on Writing Rust the Elixir Way	0	Nov 30, 2020
Also check out kvakvs' BEAM Wisdoms site: http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/ It was a big help initially to grok the bytecode format. on Enigma: Erlang VM Implementation in Rust	0	May 1, 2020
Beam VM Wisdoms	2	Jan 14, 2020

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