Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)?

Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by bnchrch on Monday August 14, 2023 @03:28PM (#37125671)

I really like Gleam, and I am a huge fan of more being built on the EVM.

Personally I want the EVM to (eventually) get the same level of adoption and mindshare as the JVM.

And currently wider Elixir use/education seems like the path to that.

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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by comex on Monday August 14, 2023 @06:47PM (#37127724)

EVM is the Ethereum Virtual Machine. You mean BEAM, right?

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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by yellowapple on Monday August 14, 2023 @11:04PM (#37129686)

EVM stood for "Erlang Virtual Machine" (of which BEAM is one implementation) before Ethereum even existed.

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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by octacat on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @09:01AM (#37133431)

Except majority of people uses BEAM name for the last 13 years. Erlang VM or Erlang Virtual Machine is ok too. EVM name is just super not-popular, idk why.

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Re:Elixir – Why the dot (when calling anonymous functions)? by yellowapple on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @10:01PM (#37156246)

Erlang's creators use EVM, which is where I learned it from. Not sure why it didn't catch on, either; I guess for a long-enough while BEAM was the only EVM implementation in common use, so it became the Xerox™ or Velcro™ of Erlang virtual machines lol

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