Elixir can spin up 100K virtual processes in under half a second on my laptop.
Say something nice about Elixir.
Elixir can spin up 100K virtual processes in under half a second on my laptop
Ryan Carter
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Robert White
fuck off elixir
Justin Powell
>Say something nice about Elixir.
I'm looking forward to learning it at uni early next year.
Blake Parker
Bloated
Oliver Walker
its stable
Justin Miller
Serious question: what's the advantage of using Elixir in apis and microservices over node and golang?
Camden Parker
1. Sane of mind of having immutable data structures.
2. Low + consistence latency
3. Ecto is way better than ones provided by nodejs or go.
4. Better live reload support overall.
Julian Gutierrez
massive concurrency, OTP (Open telecom platform, a framework for doing massive distributed nine-nines applications), easy to scale horizontally across servers. all of the power of erlang with a ruby-like syntax (for better or for worse)
Lincoln Young
thanks, when it comes to hot reloading and horizontal scaling, doesn't this conflict with the functionality offered by kubernetes? does elixir conflict with containers?
Josiah Ortiz
The only nice bit of elixir came from erlang.
Ethan Moore
ill stick to erlang, thanks
Brandon Scott
schools teach elixir now? wtf what class/university/year?
Samuel Cook
another basedboy meme language
Grayson Brooks
It's great, but I want a real type system.
Lucas Johnson
I haven't seen anyone has issues regarding this.
Elijah Rivera
Software engineering, royal institute of technology, second year
Logan Howard
Erlang/Elixir master race
Andrew Peterson
They wrote the Discord servers in Elixir. You know, the most reliable and probably the most scalable chat service ever. And this was a surprisingly small team.
Charles Hill
BEAM is great, but go will almost always run faster
Joshua Martinez
About hot reloading: Since containers are supposed to be immutable, it at the very least conflicts with the design philosophy. DESU I haven't seen a use for it in such a setup. Maybe for more fine-grained control?
Re scaling: I don't see why it would be a problem. "Nodes" in Erlang aren't hosts.
Gabriel Johnson
Yeah this guy agrees: news.ycombinator.com
Also IDK how I accidentally typed "DESU".
Landon Peterson
t b h -> desu new friend
Jaxon Lopez
expensive OS processes and threads were a mistake
William Brown
> implying that creating processes in Linux is expensive
Nathan Stewart
newfag namefag, why am I not surprised
Sebastian Lee
>Spoonfeeding
Shameful
Alexander Baker
dont know if you're joking or not lmao
Matthew Gutierrez
As in KTH?
Lincoln Gray
yes
Cameron Taylor
BEAM VM is something special.
Nolan Diaz
Erlang/Elixir come with quite complete infrastructure for distributed runtime, OS agnostic VM, actor model and supervisor implementations, logging, runtime inspection and debugging tools, reloading, both in-memory and persistent storages and databases (distributed) and more. You are getting a full stable platform for developing big robust server backends quickly.
Golang and Node.js come with nothing of that beside simple multi-threading, have to hunt for individual parts and do a lot of work on your own to even match that.
I wouldn't do small tools in Erlang. As a language it's very restricted to it's model, has small number of data types, data structured and abstraction. Tool designed for specific field.
Landon Cox
the problem with elixir and erlang is most of the time when you want massively distributed shit you want small executables and no giant libraries or "backends". this is why using a solution like czmq will win out if you are writing big boy solutions, or you can go full autist and write ocaml
Charles Foster
Erlang is for handling throughput not processing it. It is used for websockets, routing, authentication and voice data.
If you were writing a MMO you would obviously do as you said and write the various components in something like c++.
Brody Williams
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Brayden Nguyen
>Elixir can spin up 100K virtual processes in under half a second on my laptop.
Yeah, thanks to BEAM.
Julian Rodriguez
>taking a language made by third world monkeys seriously
I Shiggy Diggy
Jacob Carter
lua is great though
monkeys>pajeets>white males
Blake Brooks
Why not just pick the JVM? It's got all the same stuff, except for the built-in distribution (you can use Quasar if you really need it), more libraries and much better performance.
Eli Howard
>when you want massively distributed shit you want small executables and no giant libraries or "backends"
Why do you think that, namefag?
Jackson Richardson
sure you can, that's why Java is among the most used languages
Easton Allen
I already understand that. I want to learn why someone would choose Erlang/Elixir/BEAM instead. Clojure is a very similar language to Elixir if you don't want to write Java.