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This might make Erlang practical for FAAS. I also wonder if this will work with Elixir (since Elixir might have extra modules being loaded in too). I'm not sur
by hosh 9y ago
This might make Erlang practical for FAAS. I also wonder if this will work with Elixir (since Elixir might have extra modules being loaded in too).
I'm not sure why one would do that as opposed to say, running things with JavaScript (ubiquity) or Ruby/Python (library support). I like Elixir, though I recognize that many of Erlang's advantages is in concurrency and control.
- _asummers 9y agoWhy wouldn't you just use Mix tasks in Elixir? Once I discovered mix tasks, I have used them for all sorts of one off things.
- hosh 9y agoI have not looked at mix tasks. It depends on its characteristics. FAAS isn't exactly a one-off thing and falls under a "serverless" paradigm. (I am a bit skeptical of FAAS myself). Mix tasks might have characteristics that makes it suitable for FAAS, or it might not.
- _asummers 9y agoAh, for those sorts of things, they probably wouldn't work SUPER well, though I can see them made to work. Spinning up the BEAM is much cheaper than spinning up a JVM, though it is very much server-ey by design.