We Are Stronger Together - Uniting the BEAM Ecosystem

Explore a thought-provoking keynote address from Code BEAM America 2022 featuring Andrea Leopardi and Maxim Fedorov, discussing the current state and future potential of the BEAM ecosystem. Delve into the challenges faced by the fragmented BEAM community and discover proposed solutions for uniting developers across different BEAM languages. Learn about the thriving ecosystem, its adoption by major companies, and the need for improved interoperability between languages like Erlang, Elixir, and Gleam. Gain insights into topics such as the "Onion Theory," the potential for a BEAM monorepo, and the importance of compilation and types. This 57-minute talk is ideal for any developer working with BEAM technologies and aims to inspire a more unified approach to ecosystem development.

00:00 - - Intro
03:54 - - The Ecosystem
06:38 - - The Business Part
08:41 - - Multi-dimensional Challenge
10:55 - - The Onion Theory
11:50 - - Erlang and Elixir
20:07 - - GLEAM, LFE and more
22:42 - - Monorepo for the BEAM
32:55 - - Interoperability
38:03 - - F.O.M.O
47:27 - - Compilation and Types