The relationship with HiPE is weird. It's probably better to consider HiPE as an alternative VM to BEAM which used to be faster in some kinds of computations -- especially numerical -- but had trade-offs in terms of memory consumption and compatibility. Different shops approach HiPE uniquely, but it was not uncommon to see HiPE used for tooling -- dialyzer especially -- but not end up in production. The original developers of HiPE have now moved on entirely or are focused more on introducing JIT capability to BEAM.
The BEAM team are not the maintainers of HiPE and don't have the expertise to update it, meanwhile HiPE does not have a full-time, dedicated team behind it. I won't be surprised if HiPE gets split out from the default install in a few years if HiPE keeps falling behind.
The BEAM team are not the maintainers of HiPE and don't have the expertise to update it, meanwhile HiPE does not have a full-time, dedicated team behind it. I won't be surprised if HiPE gets split out from the default install in a few years if HiPE keeps falling behind.