I found this book very helpful as a supplement to "Crafting Interpreters". The BEAM has a lot of interesting features that many mainstream languages don't. I found the parts about processes, tagging, memory and reduction counting (chapters 3-5 and 11) especially interesting.
The book is clearly very unfinished still, but what exists is very good. Got my mind spinning on what a good statically typed language running on a VM could look like.
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I found this book very helpful as a supplement to "Crafting Interpreters". The BEAM has a lot of interesting features that many mainstream languages don't. I found the parts about processes, tagging, memory and reduction counting (chapters 3-5 and 11) especially interesting.
The book is clearly very unfinished still, but what exists is very good. Got my mind spinning on what a good statically typed language running on a VM could look like.
agreed! I built a toy language on top of Erlang also using this approach. very instructive.