--- title: Announcing the new Erlang Forums! | daily.dev description: The Erlang Forums has officially launched, and the Elixir Forum team shares why this matters for the entire BEAM ecosystem. The Elixir forum is staying... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-new-erlang-forums--mb2h7kyi3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Announcing the new Erlang Forums! | daily.dev og:description: The Erlang Forums has officially launched, and the Elixir Forum team shares why this matters for the entire BEAM ecosystem. The Elixir forum is staying... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-the-new-erlang-forums--mb2h7kyi3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mb2h7kYi3.png og:image:alt: Announcing the new Erlang Forums! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Announcing the new Erlang Forums! **[Elixir Forum](https://daily.dev/sources/elixirforum)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Erlang Forums has officially launched, and the Elixir Forum team shares why this matters for the entire BEAM ecosystem. The Elixir forum is staying independent, but the two communities are encouraged to support each other. Key points include Ericsson's significant investment in Erlang (nearly 20 full-time core team members), the potential for cross-language collaboration across BEAM languages like Elixir, Gleam, LFE, and Caramel, and the argument that a healthy Erlang ecosystem benefits all languages running on the BEAM VM. The post draws an analogy to competing vending machines to argue that cooperation and choice expand the overall market rather than cannibalize it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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