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What are its promising uses outside of web development? From the little I've seen it looks like a beautiful functional programming language, but I'm not even ta

• brentjanderson 7y ago
  * Hardware, from arduino and raspberry pi to embedded chips (https://nerves-project.org/ https://nerves-project.org/) * Multimedia streaming (https://www.membraneframework.org/ https://www.membraneframework.org/) * Financial services backend (divvy) * IoT (http://farm.bot http://farm.bot) The erlang Vm’s roots go back to telephony switches, so there are many cases beyond web.
• lawik 7y ago
  The post only covers the web stack briefly. My current favorite things in Elixir are not particularly web-related: - Nerves, embedded Linux + the BEAM VM to do IoT-style things in a nicer way. The workflow compared to something like working from Raspbian seems a lot more sane to me. - Scenic, OpenGL-rendered UI, for embedded hardware or other purposes. I recently used it to get text-rendering and geometries onto an eInk display with Nerves. One big reason for the creation of Scenic was to give IoT/connected devices UI that doesn't require a web stack. For many reasons, with security definitely being high on the list.