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From Erlang to Management to C++

Software Unscripted

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How to Build a VM for an Immutable Functional Language

If you're setting out to build a VM for an immutable functional language, you don't build the JVM. Erling is a great example of this, right? Like it is actually immutable. And that lets them take all sorts of interesting shortcuts around like garbage collector per process. Those kinds of things, you have huge performance benefits when you take advantage of them with the language that was designed for.

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