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This introduced me to Erlang, not much later I found myself watching all Joe Armstrong videos I could find and read his thesis [0]. It is so well written and unique in it's retrospective.

[0] https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf




Do you have any favorite talks of his you can recommend?


I personally like "The Mess We're In" https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4


Definitely! I also like "How we program multicores" [0], it made "iff you want the same guarantees Erlang gives you, you'll be in the same performance ballpark in any language, yes, C++ also" click for me.

Joe could explain the basic ideas and where they came from so concise and humble [1], you can probably just binge watch this whole list, one other gem being "The forgotten ideas in computer science" [2]...

[0] https://youtu.be/bo5WL5IQAd0 [1] https://youtu.be/i9Kf12NMPWE [2] https://youtu.be/-I_jE0l7sYQ?list=PLvL2NEhYV4ZsIjT55t-kxylCU...




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