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What kinds of cool things are people doing with Elixir these days, where they feel it's a really good fit for the problem domain?
I love Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView. A drawback is the size of the community, and as a function of that, availability of libraries for various things. It is not bad. It is also not great. That said, the community itself deserves high marks for their willingness to help and do so in a friendly manner.
The community is small, but that means that a reasonable question on elixirforums (not a stateless discord/slack, pun intended) has a good chance of: 1. receiving an answer from a core contributor (valim, McCord, etc) 2. Having the answer become part of the documentation for the language or library As an aside, the elixir community has a different didactic approach to many others: the documentation in elixir is genui…
I would give seasoned Ruby engineers a lot more credit than this article expects. A lot of its examples are just…functions? A lot of the things that are ‘elixir’ are what I learned when I was writing PHP and modding forums.
A lot of Rails developers don't actually know Ruby.
What kinds of cool things are people doing with Elixir these days, where they feel it's a really good fit for the problem domain?
Just wrapped up a live translation feature that watches an HLS live stream, live transcribes with whisper and then translates into 18 languages. Heavy use of OTP: supervision trees for each stream, ports for managing ffmpeg and receiving audio, async tasks for concurrently submitting chunks to translation API, etc. Transcription and translations provided in real-time via LiveView to about 4,000 viewers. Little over 3…
Can you share any details of how that works? E.g. do you operate on a single HLS chunk at a time, or can you get ffmpeg to separate a continuous audio stream, etc?
@ does not work at all the same way in ruby vs elixir, it's not even close
I would probably also put in
"Please for the love of God don't try to turn a genserver into an object"
Because many ruby programmers will try.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a date at the bottom of the page.
I don’t see one?
after the Learn Phoenix Fast red box.
However the convention is to put dates at the beginning of an article. Readers shouldn't have to make an effort to look for them.
This reminds me when I had to look for how to check for inequality in Lua after I wrote != and it didn't work. didn't work too.
I love Elixir, Phoenix and LiveView. A drawback is the size of the community, and as a function of that, availability of libraries for various things. It is not bad. It is also not great. That said, the community itself deserves high marks for their willingness to help and do so in a friendly manner.
I've personally been surprised by a pro of having a more intimate community: in my experience, this leads to a higher signal-to-noise ratio in discussions and resources. It feels like what I need to get online is more "condensed".
What kinds of cool things are people doing with Elixir these days, where they feel it's a really good fit for the problem domain?
I'm building a multiplayer real time web based game (io style, 2 ticks per second, so not 64 like a true realtime game). It seems to work quite well so far. I'm using https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte for the frontend with pixi.js for the rendering.
What kinds of cool things are people doing with Elixir these days, where they feel it's a really good fit for the problem domain?
Elixir felt all around like s perfect fit for it , apart that some faster deep mutations likely would have been had to be ported to rust or c because the way I wrote it having 250 players on a single map walking around and seeing each other close by caused huge latency but no crashes Scaled well across multiple machines and lots of players as long as they did not all bog down the same map process :) Didn't even had to think s lot about how I structured it for the current state of development it was basic rapid iteration with mostly live recompilation on changes without having to restart anything https://gitlab.com/zen_core/zen_core