This document is intended to list (a) languages implemented to run on the BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine, and (b) documents (articles & presentations) about the hows and whys of writing languages to run on the BEAM.

For the moment, and for want of a better name, I call such languages “BEAM languages” (although I have heard that there are other Erlang VMs, …).

I would like the document to be comprehensive, or at least “representative”. If I have missed a BEAM language, some noteworthy discussion about a BEAM language, or documentation about implementing languages targetting the BEAM, please let me know through the usual channels (issues, forks, PRs, tweets, emails, etc.).

Thank you.

Erlang itelf, then the Lisp-influenced languages, then in alphabetical order.

• http:https://www.erlang.org/
• https://github.com/erlang/otp

• http:https://joxa.org/
• https://github.com/joxa/joxa
• https://joxa.readthedocs.org/

• Eric Merritt
• 2012/02/21
• http:https://blog.ericbmerritt.com/2012/02/21/differences-between-joxa-and-lfe.html

• Eric Merritt
• 2012/08/22
• https://vimeo.com/49116180

• http:https://lfe.io/
• https://github.com/rvirding/lfe

• http:https://the-concurrent-schemer.github.io/scm-doc/
• https://github.com/the-concurrent-schemer/scm

• http:https://efene.org/
• https://github.com/efene/efene

• http:https://elixir-lang.org/
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir

“eml - Erlang flavored by Some ML”

• https://github.com/etnt/eml

• https://github.com/joearms/erl2

Announcement and ensuing discussion on erlang-questions

http:https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-February/064687.html

“A Few Improvements to Erlang” (EUC 2012)

http:https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/ErlangUserConference2012/speakers/joearmstrong

A blog post about the above presentation in Chinese

http:https://www.cnblogs.com/me-sa/archive/2012/06/06/2538941.html

• https://github.com/rvirding/erlog

• Robert Virding
• 2009/03/18
• http:https://rvirding.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/backtracking-in-erlang-part-1-control.html

The original repo (on Google Code) no longer exists, but there are several forks, e.g.:

• https://github.com/KlausTrainer/erlyjs

A couple of blog posts from 2008 (the second is by the original developer of erlyjs):

ErlyJS: JavaScript on Erlang

http:https://ajaxian.com/archives/erlyjs-javascript-on-erlang

ErlyJS - translating Javascript to Erlang

http:https://rsaccon.blogspot.co.uk/2008/02/erlyjs-translating-javascript-to-erlang.html

• https://github.com/etnt/Haskerl

The Haskerl Index

http:https://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~partain/haskerl.html

Yhc/Erlang/Proof of concept

https://wiki.haskell.org/Yhc/Erlang/Proof_of_concept

• https://github.com/rvirding/luerl

• http:https://reia-lang.org/
• https://github.com/tarcieri/reia

• https://github.com/extend/xerl

Five web articles in 2013 starting with:

• 2013/01/30
• “Xerl: empty modules”
• http:https://ninenines.eu/articles/xerl-0.1-empty-modules/

(slides)

• Brian Troutwine
• 2014/07/23
• http:https://www.slideshare.net/BrianTroutwine1/erlang-lfe-elixir-and-joxa-oscon-2014

(video)

• Robert Virding
• 2014/10/29 (London Erlang UG)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm0mbQbc9Kc

(slides & video)

• Robert Virding
• 2014/11/04 (Codemesh 2014)
• http:https://www.codemesh.io/codemesh2014/robert-virding

(slides)

• Hamidreza Soleimani
• 2015/08/06
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9D6BzMBVYONR0ZzV3pTb3N4bms/view?pli=1

(article/interview, with links to podcast & video)

• Federico Carrone
• 2015/08/11
• https://medium.com/this-is-not-a-monad-tutorial/eric-merritt-erlang-and-distributed-systems-expert-gives-his-views-on-beam-languages-hindley-a09b15f53a2f

These first two papers are linked from Philip Wadler’s erlang page: http:https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/erlang.html

(paper)

• Simon Marlow & Philip Wadler
• 1997
• http:https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/erlang/erlang.pdf

(slides)

• Philip Wadler
• 2002
• http:https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/erlang/erlang-slides.pdf

• Namdak Tonpa
• 2013
• https://github.com/5HT/om