Well it seems that those are two different approaches. Rustler being a Rust library to write Rust NIFs for Elixir. So I guess you have to compile the NIF first

Well it seems that those are two different approaches. Rustler being a Rust library to write Rust NIFs for Elixir. So I guess you have to compile the NIF first and then use it. On the other hand Zigler seems to be an Elixir library that you give a string of zig code and it probably offloads compilation to the zig compiler. Since Elixir is compiled to bytecode, if you don't modify it won't get unecessary recompiled I guess so the approach has merit I think. Btw it's a sigil'ed string, that is the result of a function that takes a string and returns one rather than a string literal