Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir) • Hacker News Board

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by webspaceadam » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 12:35 PM UTC

tiew9Vii wrote: post #25

josefrichter wrote: post #10

Funny how these things are fairly simple on BEAM. Funny how majority of industry won’t ever learn anything about BEAM and will keep hitting walls for the rest of their careers.

Any recommended learning resources?

get your feet wet with elixir or gleam. i think they are way more approachable than erlang

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by isodev » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 12:52 PM UTC

Haha, this is so much fun! I love Elixir/LiveView!

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by vfclists » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 1:12 PM UTC

It has gone wonky. An hour ago even with more users circa 170 I was able to jump to 1900000 and above and get a display.

As of now (14:00 BST, circa 70 users)there is no display even for the numbers before that, 95000.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by darajava » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 1:12 PM UTC

This has a much higher build quality than the one submitted a few days ago.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by dugmartin » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 1:12 PM UTC

tiew9Vii wrote: post #25

josefrichter wrote: post #10

Funny how these things are fairly simple on BEAM. Funny how majority of industry won’t ever learn anything about BEAM and will keep hitting walls for the rest of their careers.

Any recommended learning resources?

There is currently a HumbleBundle running with a bunch of Elixir books from PragProg. I won't share the link as I don't want to spam.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by jimbobthrowawy » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 1:16 PM UTC

kmorgh wrote: post #3

Is this going to be a thing now where someone releases a doubled version every week? I would like that.

If there were to be an arms race like that, my first attempt would be infinite-checkboxes or similar. Would probably run absolutely horribly on anything but the beefiest machines, and cost thousands of dollars for bandwidth.

Would need to come up with a way to make (un)checking computationally expensive to stop the state immediately ballooning to gigabytes in size.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by gsanghera » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 2:20 PM UTC

Excellent! The scrolling could be better though. I love elixir - but the scrolling from the site a couple of days back was much snappier.

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by neonsunset » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

josefrichter wrote: post #10

Funny how these things are fairly simple on BEAM. Funny how majority of industry won’t ever learn anything about BEAM and will keep hitting walls for the rest of their careers.

It's way too slow and per-task overhead is much higher than in compiled alternatives (Rust and .NET - BEAM performance is much worse than these, sometimes by a factor of 10).

Surely you're not asserting that other platforms that provide concurrency and parallelism primitives are designed by people who don't know what they're doing?

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by butz » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 2:48 PM UTC

Will one of those checkbox pages finally add support for "indeterminate" state?

Re: Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir)

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Post by shepherdjerred » Fri, Jun 28, 2024, 3:51 PM UTC

josefrichter wrote: post #10

Funny how these things are fairly simple on BEAM. Funny how majority of industry won’t ever learn anything about BEAM and will keep hitting walls for the rest of their careers.

What can BEAM do that other languages can't? Do you have a favorite learning resource for it?