"The primary motivator for Lumen's development was the ability to compile Elixir applications that could target WebAssembly, enabling use of Elixir as a language for frontend development."
I had to dig to lean what BEAM is :)
"Bogumil Hausman next machine was called BEAM (Bogdan’s Erlang Abstract Machine). It was a hybrid machine that could execute both native code and threaded code with an interpreter. That allowed customers to compile their time-critial modules to native code and all other modules to threaded BEAM code. The threaded BEAM in itself was faster than JAM code."
"The primary motivator for Lumen's development was the ability to compile Elixir applications that could target WebAssembly, enabling use of Elixir as a language for frontend development."
I had to dig to lean what BEAM is :)
"Bogumil Hausman next machine was called BEAM (Bogdan’s Erlang Abstract Machine). It was a hybrid machine that could execute both native code and threaded code with an interpreter. That allowed customers to compile their time-critial modules to native code and all other modules to threaded BEAM code. The threaded BEAM in itself was faster than JAM code."
http://blog.erlang.org/beam-compiler-history/
I now feel a little less bad that I couldn't figure out the acronym :)