BEAMscene is a collaborative blog built by members of the first Dockyard Academy cohort. Our focus is on the fascinating family of programming languages that run on the BEAM virtual machine, each of which presents a unique perspective on the past, present, and future of computing—a perspective strongly informed, in some significant way, by the Erlang worldview. But what is this worldview, really? Where does the BEAM begin and end? What is its true shape and extent?
BEAMscene embraces a nonconventional approach to reading about and thinking with programming. Beyond purely technical discussions, we seek out BEAM languages as they are spoken in "the real world"—by humans, in cultural as much as engineering practice. How does one come to feel affection for athe Erlang programming paradigm? What impulse makes an investor throw a million dollars at an all-Elixir stack? What's an afterparty at a Code Sync conference like?
With us, uncover the under-appreciated people and stories that sustain on the computer-science genius of SMP. Expect contributions from folks working in Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, Luerl, Clojerl, Caramel, Alpaca...maybe even Fika! 🚅
Written in Elixir, Phoenix, TailwindCSS, and PostgresQL. Deployed on the incredible Fly.io.