v1.0

Beam Book 1.0 — First Edition

The ink has dried: the inaugural edition of The BEAM Book: Understanding the Erlang Runtime System is now available in print. If you like your computer‐science references to double as free-weight equipment, head over to Amazon and grab a copy. Digital artefacts (PDF + webpage) remain in the repo for the screen-inclined.

Highlights - the last few months

Print edition live on Amazon — see “Where to buy” below.

Full, line-by-line overhaul of all pre-1.0 chapters.

Expanded on Nifs and Bifs, and other ways to interface with another language.

ETP has replaced the use of HiPE Bifs for inspection.

Reorganised chapters.

Devcontainer for builds.

What's Changed - since the last pre-release

• Add all missing filenames generated for the emulator by @yagogarea in #196
• docs: minor fixes and typo by @yagogarea in #197
• Fix I/O example typos by @happi in #198

New Contributors

• @yagogarea made their first contribution in #196

Full Changelog: v0.1.4...v1.0

Where to buy the tree-ware

Amazon US — https://www.amazon.com/dp/9153142535

Amazon SE — https://www.amazon.se/dp/9153142535

Thanks

A round of applause to every reviewer who filed a typo, mis-drawn arrow, or off-by-one scheduling diagram during the beta phase—especially @richcarl, @garazdawi, the OTP team, and the #erlang Slack crowd.

Up next

Work on version 1.1 has already started. Expect deeper dives into the JIT, the new debugger, and perhaps a small rant about scheduler utilisation metrics.

“Shipping is a feature; sometimes the most important feature.” – Joel Spolsky

We just shipped. Enjoy.
-Happi

v0.1.4

Release 0.1.4

v0.1.3

Release 0.1.3

New semantic versioning

Full Changelog: 0.1.0...v0.1.2

0.1.0

Getting close to a real release

What's Changed

• Some cleanup and first draft of debugging chapter. by @happi in #177
• Updated OTP build chapter by @richcarl in #179
• Part ii restructuring by @happi in #180
• Fix #171 describe register with type hint tag. by @happi in #181
• Fix #170 describe new chunks. by @happi in #182
• Modernized sections on debugging with GDB and building a debug executable by @richcarl in #184
• fix xrefs in chapter 1 by @nrednav in #183
• Fix typo that broke Debugging chapter declaration by @richcarl in #185
• Update preface and introduction by @richcarl in #186
• Update introduction, enable index by @richcarl in #187
• Fix uses of +...+ where backticks were intended by @richcarl in #188
• Update figures in memory chapter and note sharing preserving config option by @richcarl in #189
• Improve description of term ordering by @richcarl in #190
• Update the compiler chapter and bibliography by @richcarl in #191
• Polished Processes chapter by @richcarl in #192
• Updated section on process dictionary by @richcarl in #193
• Updated chapter on types and tags by @richcarl in #194
• Updated the Beam chapter by @richcarl in #195

New Contributors

• @nrednav made their first contribution in #183

Full Changelog: 0.0.18...0.1.0

Interfacing with C code

Initial version of C-chapter.

Debugging

0.0.17

Some additions and cleanup of the Ops chapter

Draft of debug chapter

Debugging (#158)

* Outline

* Outline to sections

* Bump checkout version in workflow and make it possible to fetch history

* Fix bash script for generating contributors file

---------

Co-authored-by: Erik Stenman <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Tobias Lindahl <[email protected]>

Booleans

0.0.15

Added boolean type and true and false.

0.0.14.fix

Ch5 minor improvements