BEAM (Erlang virtual machine)

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BEAM is the virtual machine at the core of the Erlang Open Telecom Platform (OTP). [1] BEAM is part of the Erlang Run-Time System (ERTS), which compiles Erlang source code into bytecode, which is then executed on the BEAM. [2] [3] BEAM bytecode files have the .beam file extension. [4]

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Originally BEAM was short for Bogdan's Erlang Abstract Machine, named after Bogumil "Bogdan" Hausman, who wrote the original version, but the name may also be referred to as Björn's Erlang Abstract Machine, after Björn Gustavsson, who wrote and maintains the current version. [1] [5] [6] Both developers worked on the system while at Ericsson. [7] [8]

The predecessor of the BEAM was JAM (Joe's Abstract Machine), which was the first virtual machine for the Erlang language and was written by Joe Armstrong and Mike Williams in the C language. [9]

BEAM languages

Although BEAM was created for Erlang, several other languages have been either created for it or ported to run on it. The most popular of these is Elixir, which had more responses than Erlang itself in a 2023 Stack Overflow developer survey. [10] Other notable examples include:

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Erlang Runtime System". happi.github.io. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
  2. ↑ Martin., Logan (2011). Erlang and OTP in action. Merritt, Eric., Carlsson, Richard. Stamford, CT: Manning Pub. ISBN   9781933988788. OCLC   747046900.
  3. ↑ "Most Popular Programming Languages of 2018 - Elite Infoworld Blog". 2018-03-30. Archived from the original on 2018-05-09. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
  4. ↑ Zachary., Kessin (2012). Building web applications with Erlang. Beijing: O'Reilly. ISBN   9781449309961. OCLC   802882644.
  5. ↑ "erlang/otp". GitHub. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  6. ↑ "Confirmed Errata | O'Reilly Media" . Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  7. ↑ Kerjouan, Mathieu (2017-07-17). "Serialization series — Do you speak Erlang ETF or BERT? (part 1)". Medium. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  8. ↑ "Erlang BEAM Instruction Set". www.cs-lab.org. Retrieved 2018-05-06.
  9. ↑ Armstrong, Joe (2007-06-09). "A history of Erlang". Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages. HOPL III. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 6–1–6–26. doi:10.1145/1238844.1238850. ISBN   978-1-59593-766-7.
  10. ↑ "Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2023". Stack Overflow. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  11. ↑ Facorro, Juan. "Clojerl". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  12. ↑ "Cuneiform". Cuneiform. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  13. ↑ "Gleam". Gleam. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  14. ↑ "LFE". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  15. ↑ "luerl". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
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