Definitely way easier than tracing Node for any type of async exceptions.

mikercampbell · on Nov 8, 2023

I transferred from Node.js to elixir for that reason.

Uncaught throws, hanging errors - while someone much smarter than I could have done it better, I was doing a lot of async/retry of APIs with high failure rate and the BEAM just made it easy.

cdaringe · on Nov 8, 2023

You can put node into debug mode after launch (SIGUSR1) and remote debug it as well, with sources, which is really incredible. This BEAM demo is rad, but chrome/v8 debug is actually really good too if you take the time to learn all the remote debug tips n tricks.

mikercampbell · on Nov 18, 2023

WHAT. I will catch up with you after the rabbit-hole.

I’ve got massive hopes for things like Bun, but especially Deno’s architecture of message passing, but I’m now humbled by my not knowing that existed in V8.