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Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by cube2222 » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:22 PM UTC

neya wrote: post #10

Would Elixir be able to support this? If yes, then it could be a huge deal (atleast for me). Imagine writing a POS system's code in Elixir. That'd be very nice, although I understand at this point this is just wishful thinking.

Actually, in the article it's written, that it's supposed to run elixir amongst others.

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by unwind » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:23 PM UTC

salimmadjd wrote: post #2

Ot: please lessen the “DRAFT” stamp. It makes it very hard to read

Agree, and another meta-comment would be to move to "MB" or "MiB", instead of using "Mb" to mean "mega byte", which is very confusing.

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by fnordsensei » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:24 PM UTC

sbr464 wrote: post #3

salimmadjd wrote: post #2

Ot: please lessen the “DRAFT” stamp. It makes it very hard to read

I just right click -> Adblock -> remove element

Mobile user here… It's even worse (I imagine), and unfixable from mobile Safari.

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by Y_Y » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:24 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #9

We barely had FB and Sonar, to just get yet another example of how badly to name projects. http://gluonhq.com/

https://github.com/KDE/gluon

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by lhenault » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:25 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #9

We barely had FB and Sonar, to just get yet another example of how badly to name projects. http://gluonhq.com/

Indeed : https://gluon.mxnet.io/

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by mikece » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:29 PM UTC

neya wrote: post #10

Would Elixir be able to support this? If yes, then it could be a huge deal (atleast for me). Imagine writing a POS system's code in Elixir. That'd be very nice, although I understand at this point this is just wishful thinking.

I know of a company who implemented a POS in Elixir in Phoenix running in web kiosk mode. I don’t know any further details and probably couldn’t share them if I did but this scenarios has been done with BEAM.

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by brightball » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:29 PM UTC

neya wrote: post #10

Would Elixir be able to support this? If yes, then it could be a huge deal (atleast for me). Imagine writing a POS system's code in Elixir. That'd be very nice, although I understand at this point this is just wishful thinking.

Seems like this will make it into Nerves fairly quickly.

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by mikece » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:30 PM UTC

salimmadjd wrote: post #2

Ot: please lessen the “DRAFT” stamp. It makes it very hard to read

Use Firefox’s reading mode... solves issues like that easily. :-)

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by chrisseaton » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:30 PM UTC

cube2222 wrote: post #8

_pmf_ wrote: post #6

Wouldn't targeting GraalVM make sense, too?

Could you elaborate please? Why do you think would it make sense?

It'd be great to see what a state-of-the-art optimising compiler can do for the performance of Erlang and Elixir.

Re: Gluon – A configurable and small virtual machine which runs Erlang BEAM bytecode

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Post by neya » Tue, Jun 12, 2018, 12:32 PM UTC

cube2222 wrote: post #11

neya wrote: post #10

Would Elixir be able to support this? If yes, then it could be a huge deal (atleast for me). Imagine writing a POS system's code in Elixir. That'd be very nice, although I understand at this point this is just wishful thinking.

Actually, in the article it's written, that it's supposed to run elixir amongst others.

Wow, I totally missed it because of the tiny font size. Thanks!