On: Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages

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While I appreciate this is cool project, and I enjoy writing Erlang & Elixir. What benefit is there to being able to run BEAM/OTP in the browser?

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I have been thinking about using the Erlang concurrency and messaging model for brower-based applications.

UI components operate in separate threads and communicate with the back end by sending and receiving async messages.

Back-end components communicate with servers using async messages, then publish results to front-end components.

This is similar to what Joe Armstrong was working on for X-Windows GUIs: https://erlang.org/workshop/2004/ex11.pdf