5 engineers on Hacker News describe using BEAM first-hand: 4 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Elixir's lack of "hard" static typing is more than made up for what you get from the BEAM VM, OTP”
endorse · production · shawa_a_a · 2024-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to beam (https://www.beam.cloud) and it's so much better.”
endorse · production · moscicky · 2024-02-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“BEAM is good as long as you don't need to do heavy computation, but lack of type-safety... shit breaks in prod”
mixed · production · 2 yr · ninjakeyboard · 2020-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You can't really do that reliably without the BEAM.”
endorse · production · dnautics · 2019-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Capturing traffic to replay on a test cluster to simulate production load, all becomes very trivial with BEAM.”
endorse · production · jhgg · 2018-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?