Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
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Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
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Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#2Looks like a very cool way to interop with Python from Elixir without maintaining a separate Python stack (which is a PITA)!
Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#3“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should”
just kidding, this is pretty cool.
Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#4Great and informative article. Also nice to get an explicit mention that this isn't just a subprocess call, but running in the same process.
The only thing I'd would have like to see in added would be calling a function defined in Python from Elixir, instead of only the `Pythonx.eval` example.
The `%{"binary" => binary}` is very telling, but a couple of more and different examples would have been nice.
Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
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Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#6I love the initial decision to grow Elixir's ML foundations from scratch, but I also love that we now have a really ergonomic way to farm out to the fast-moving python libraries
> Also, it conveniently handles conversion between Elixir and Python data structures, bubbles Python exceptions and captures standard output
Sooo nice
Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#7Elixir has some features I wish Python had:
- atoms
- everything (or most things) is a macro, even def, etc.
- pipes |>, and no, I don't want to write a "pipe" class in Python to use it like pipe(foo, bar, ...). 90% of the |> power comes from its 'flow' programming style.
- true immutability
- true parallelism and concurrency thanks to the supervision trees
- hot code reloading (you recompile the app WHILE it's running)
- fault tolerance (again, thanks for supervision trees)
Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#8Elixir has some features I wish Python had: - atoms - everything (or most things) is a macro, even def, etc. - pipes |>, and no, I don't want to write a "pipe" class in Python to use it like pipe(foo, bar, ...). 90% of the |> power comes from its 'flow' programming style. - true immutability - true parallelism and concurrency thanks to the supervision trees - hot code reloading (you recompile the app WHILE it's runni…
Mix is also so much better than anything python has to offer in terms of build/dependency tooling.
Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#9Elixir has some features I wish Python had: - atoms - everything (or most things) is a macro, even def, etc. - pipes |>, and no, I don't want to write a "pipe" class in Python to use it like pipe(foo, bar, ...). 90% of the |> power comes from its 'flow' programming style. - true immutability - true parallelism and concurrency thanks to the supervision trees - hot code reloading (you recompile the app WHILE it's runni…
Coming from Erlang, I think macros are one of the things I'm ambivalent about in Elixir. There are a bunch of actual improvements besides just the syntax itself in Elixir, like string handling, but things like macros in Ecto ... not yet a fan of that.
Re: Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
#10I love this, I've primarily been working in Elixir for a few years now and this is neat to see!