Thinking Elixir Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Rust”

152: Rust and Elixir Play Great Together

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 23 May 2023 04:15:00 -0600

Rust is a popular lower level language and the community has created a number of libraries to solve different problems. We talk with Jason Stiebs, a Phoenix Core Team member, about how Elixir and Rust can play well together. Jason wrote an article about how he leveraged an image processing library available in Rust by using the Elixir Rustler package. We talk about how Rustler works through NIFs, and we learn how easy using Rustler has become. It's great to understand that we have a powerful escape hatch like Rustler for those times we need it. We also get Jason’s insights into the Phoenix project and talk about the importance of improving the developer experience when a LiveView crashes and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/152

Elixir Community News

https://www.erlang.org/news/164 – Erlang OTP 26 Final was released
https://www.erlang.org/blog/otp-26-highlights/
https://www.erlang.org/blog/otp-26-highlights/#improvements-of-maps – Improvements to Maps
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.14.4 – When Elixir 1.14.4 was released, it included the ability to request sorted map keys when inspecting.
https://www.erlang.org/blog/otp-26-highlights/#incremental-mode-for-dialyzer – Incremental mode for Dialyzer
https://erlangforums.com/t/in-erlang-otp-27-0-0-will-no-longer-be-exactly-equal-to-0-0/2586 – Erlang OTP 27 where +0.0 will no longer be exactly equal to -0.0.
https://felt.com/blog/startup-and-shutdown-for-phoenix-applications – Jason Axelson wrote an article about doing a “Graceful Startup and Shutdown for Phoenix Applications” over on the Felt blog.
https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s10-e08-jose-valim-future-elixir-ecosystem/ – José Valim was on the Elixir Wizards podcast talking about the future development of Elixir
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1658160088354369546 – José Valim was asking for feedback on the "Optional Syntax Sheet" documentation.
https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/optional-syntax.html – Optional syntax sheet in the Elixir Getting Started docs
https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1648466250828484609 – LLaMa support added to Nx and Bumblebee by Sean Moriarity
https://twitter.com/FrerichRaabe/status/1648696436266004480 – Nicely summarizing Tweet that frames the LLaMa work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2fDjl2hoAk – ElixirConf EU keynote video titled “Using Elixir & Phoenix To Build A City Software Infrastructure”
https://www.empex.co/new-york – Empex NYC - use code THINKING to get $100 of your ticket
https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2023 – LambdaDays functional programming conference on 5-6 June 2023 in Kraków Poland
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1658159252773453824 – José Valim will speak about meta-programmable functional notebooks with Livebook

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Discussion Resources

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/elixir-and-rust-is-a-good-mix/ – Elixir and Rust Is a Good Mix
https://youtu.be/FADQAnq0RpA?t=3636 – Chris McCord specifically calling out Jason for advocating for a better DX around LiveView errors.
https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users
https://news.livebook.dev/label/45764
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/tensors-and-nx-are-not-just-for-machine-learning/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/peregrine – on Twitter
https://github.com/jeregrine/ – on Github
https://merveilles.town/@peregrine – on Fediverse
mailto:jason@fly.io – Email

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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social
Cade Ward - @cadebward
Cade Ward on Fediverse - @cadebward@genserver.social

119: NPM CLI Maintainer Moves to Phoenix and Rust

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 04:15:00 -0600

Kat Marchán was the maintainer of NPM CLI for 5 years but now works at Microsoft on the VisualStudio product. Kat is passionate about Rust and uses Elixir and Phoenix to build a new Banchan Art site to serve artists. It helps connect artists with clients who want to commission custom artwork. The goal is to create a platform that does not exploit artists like many of the existing options. Amazingly, the Banchan Art Elixir project is OpenSource as well!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/119

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1572934094098694145 – Phoenix LiveView v0.18 was released!
https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-0.18-released – LiveView release blog post
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/v0.18.0/CHANGELOG.md – LiveView changelog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-rqBLjr5Eo – Chris McCord's ElixirConf keynote talking about the release
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckJPn7n-k-vorjpQLTKtOlo4pxKYP64J71yg5iutTeY9jG5w/viewform – Code Smells online survey
https://github.com/lucasvegi/Elixir-Code-Smells – Previous Elixir Code Smells github repository
https://ti.to/strange-loop/2023 – Strange Loop's final conference held in Saint Louis, MO. Sept 21-22 in 2023
Elixir 1.14 hidden date/time gem

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Discussion Resources

https://www.npmjs.com/
https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v6
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
https://www.erlang.org/
https://elixir-lang.org/
https://www.rust-lang.org/
https://banchan.art/beta – Banchan Art site
https://github.com/BanchanArt/banchan – Banchan Art Elixir project

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/zkat__ – Kat on Twitter
https://twitter.com/BanchanArt – BanchanArt on Twitter
https://github.com/zkat/ – on Github
https://banchan.art/beta – BanchanArt site
https://github.com/BanchanArt/banchan – Banchan Art Elixir Project

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Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward

95: Rustler Precompiled with Philip Sampaio

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:15:00 -0600

The recent announcement of Rustler Precompiled prompted a lot of interest and questions. We talk with Philip Sampaio to understand what he created and what problem it helps solve. The project helps lower the bar for using Rust libraries for NIFs in Elixir making it possible to see more libraries using Rustler in the future. He explains what prompted the work initially and how projects can benefit from it. We discuss what it means for internal company projects and especially for libraries. He explains how the project addresses the many architecture and platform combinations too. We end with learning about his sample CI project that shows us how to set up our own CI systems to use it.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/95

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4742 – Phoenix presence client
https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1511393478873427982 – Twitter thread discussing the Phoenix presence client
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/changelog.html#0-17-8-2022-04-06 – LiveView 0.17.8 released. Includes the HEEx template formatter
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.HTMLFormatter.html – Docs on how to set it up
Issues discussing VS Code problems
https://github.com/elixir-lsp/vscode-elixir-ls/issues/242
https://github.com/elixir-lsp/vscode-elixir-ls/issues/241
https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on – flame_on library updated
https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/02/22/profiling-elixir-applications-with-flame-graphs-and-flame-on – Original flame_on announcement post for more info
https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1513630468490645509 – Oban adds “inline mode” to make testing more straightforward
https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/how-eex-turns-your-template-into-html/ – Mitchell Hanberg wrote an article about how EEx works
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/92 – Previous interview with Mitchell Hanberg
https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir/exercises/take-a-number-deluxe – Exercism.io GenServer learning exercise was added.
https://twitter.com/atyborska93/status/1513807461043552256 – Angelika shares about the Exercism.io update
https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1512100896653590535 – Andrea Leopardi is working at Apple now on their Environment team.
https://www.apple.com/environment/ – More about the Apple Environment team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7t7zca8SyM – “Elixir in 100 seconds” video

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Discussion Resources

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/philipsampaio – on Twitter
https://github.com/philss/ – on Github
https://dashbit.co/blog – Dashbit blog where he writes
https://phils.dev – Personal blog

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