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by lawik 7y ago
Something like this thing? https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3 The sample I tried in this post is only an Erlang interpreter. The whole compile chain is not quite ready from what I gather. It should be feasible at later poi
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by lawik 7y ago
That's a fair point :)
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by lawik 7y ago
I think you can get more info from the video linked there. I don't recall the details but if it isn't Web Workers there might be something in Wasm. I'm pretty sure it's intended to be able to run multiple schedulers. But
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by lawik 7y ago
Is that the thing where after a number of reductions by a single process the BEAM will make sure another process gets its time in the sun? I believe so but I'm not familiar enough with the internals. They definitely spoke about reducti
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by lawik 7y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of the distinction. But I honestly haven't settled on how to refer to it all as a whole. Do you have a preference?
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by lawik 7y ago
That's not accurate. WebAssembly is a different beast than JS. As far as I've understood it is executed differently and can do some different things. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be optimized more than JS eithe
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by lawik 7y ago
That sounds pretty close to what Scenic does for OpenGL-rendered UI. Scenic has some interesting properties in that if a specific component has a code problem and fails/crashes, the supervision tree will bring it back to life. I'm
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by lawik 7y ago
It will run Erlang and Elixir. So anything you like or dislike about working with those languages should carry over. I find them delightful, mostly have experience with Elixir. Asynchronous and event-driven code is already a fact in the bro
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by lawik 7y ago
Separate worlds.. I'd never heard about Laravel's Lumen until the two comments here. I had seen that they had Mix and Elixir which seemed unfortunate. Lots of weird naming overlap going on specifically between these apparently.
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by lawik 7y ago
What I find the most interesting about it is that it doesn't try to rework the BEAM to fit in the browser but rather does the much more ambitious work of trying to compile something fairly optimized that won't bloat the frontend.
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by lawik 7y ago
Haha! Oh dear.. I think adding "elixir" to any search is pretty much mandatory. Phoenix, Nerves, Scenic. All need some qualifiers. Ecto might stand on its own.
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Lumen – Elixir and Erlang in the Browser(underjord.io)
264 points by lawik 7y ago|77 comments
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Why am I still excited about Elixir?(underjord.io)
11 points by lawik 7y ago|0 comments
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by lawik 7y ago
Oh dear, yes! I missed that in the release notes but I'd heard it was coming. I want it. I wanted it today.
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by lawik 7y ago
Oh, and the Lumen project is looking to get it to compile to WebAssembly rather than run on a VM which seems like it will also provide a more lightweight way of running it. That both adds a new use-case and potentially improves the places w
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by lawik 7y ago
If you want, you can write scripts in it. Just like Python, but that isn't the sweet spot. It is much more suitable for long-running things. But Nerves is a cool project for Elixir + embedded Linux. Scenic is a neat project for OpenGL
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by lawik 7y ago
A few years back I wanted to try it for a microservice but found it didn't integrate with our system because of missing features in the ZeroMQ libs of the time. So there are and were corners where things aren't fully fleshed out.
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by lawik 7y ago
I've found most Elixir projects I've taken a look at to be surprisingly easy to follow when I've needed to. I've dug into Ecto, Ecto SQL, Elixir itself at times. This was just because I was trying to figure out some corn
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by lawik 7y ago
Seems like it was a straight up acqui-hire. They were happy with the dev-work, processes and stuff they got from hiring them originally and wanted all of it. Or that was my take-away from reading it at least.
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by lawik 7y ago
Soft delete in the sense of removing availability but keeping the data shouldn't be GDPR compliant from what I've seen. Not in regards to right to be forgotten and restrictions on keeping PII.
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by lawik 7y ago
I'd say the languages are largely equivalent. Roughly the same level of abstraction, roughly the same technical trade-offs. Highly productive, lots of people enjoy them, not very strict. What Python does have specifically for automatio
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by lawik 7y ago
In the Nerves project (Elixir thing for embedded linux) it is used to be able to power, SSH to the device and push new firmware changes without needing to reimage the SD card. Already used that a lot with the zero and 3A.
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by lawik 7y ago
As an Elixir enthusiast I would say, if you prefer Erlang to Elixir or is more experienced with it and will be building web stuff Elixir is one more dependency which could br avoided. I like Elixir. Not all Erlangers do. Also, this mentions
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by lawik 7y ago
I agree that IRC doesn't hit the needs and wants of many contributors these days. But I've really found the limits of the Slack free plan a bit rough in the Elixir Slack. And I'd say concerns about being on a proprietary syst
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Elixir and Ecto – Dynamic Repos – Part 2(underjord.io)
1 points by lawik 7y ago|0 comments
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by lawik 7y ago
Noisebridge is one I believe. Covered in at least one Doctorow book. Strange Parts did a nice video on it too.
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by lawik 7y ago
facepalm Yeah, yeah, that's fair. I should have caught that in editing. Thanks, I'll fix that up. Now if you don't know or love Ecto, that's another matter. Can't help you there ;)
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Elixir and Ecto – Multi-Tenancy Through Dynamic Repos(underjord.io)
5 points by lawik 7y ago|2 comments
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by lawik 7y ago
Developers can use Catalyst to build their iPad/iOS apps for Mac. New thing with the new OS version. And sort of a path forward towards the idea of Swift UI and one UItoolkit to rule them all I guess. https://developer.apple
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Why a Newsletter?(underjord.io)
3 points by lawik 7y ago|0 comments

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