This is such a cool project. Haven't used it for any serious things but just the ability to have a high performance media streaming framework inside of Elixir is amazing. You literally could build Twitch just using BEAM and nothing else (a Postgres database is probably good to have though).
Mnesia is not a database by any modern definition of the term and it should generally be avoided. It is at least 4 if not 5 orders of magnitude away from "being able to run Twitch". That is, yes, I'm serious, if you tried to run a Twitch clone "but 10,000x smaller" I would still expect Mnesia to completely fall over.
mnesia is great, and you can get very far before you would make the jump to anything else. And it can be way faster then any other database. For obvious reasons.
Although it would be great if it spoke SQL, maybe one day it will: https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql since we can already pass it and get the AST.
We’ve been running elixir in production since 2017.
During the pandemic, our elixir app sent/received 45 million text messages, helped schedule 1.5 million vaccination appointments, and a few million COVID testing appointments.
It all scaled and performed flawlessly. Any bugs were our fault :-)
I recall doing a tutorial for Exilir, the Phoenix framework in particular, a few years back and I actually enjoyed using it. Anyone know any good up-to-date tutorials someone could use?
Fantastic project, and the team behind it is really good! The developers I have worked with are passionate about building things the right way (not just making it work/adding kludge).
I felt like I was seeing the future when I saw the visualization/rendering of PeerConnection stats on the server side. The video compositor is really neat also how they have it working with live modifications.
I wish I had more time/a chance to use it on a project myself.
I looked at using this for a client project a few months ago. We use Erlang and Elixir at work, and it's my go-to for anything serious.
Be aware that parts of their stack use a custom license for some components... but a large portion of it is OSS Apache 2.0, which is nice if you can stick to those parts!
What do you mean by "develop environment"? Are you referring to IDE support or features like mix, IEx, pry, releases, etc.?
If the latter, Elixir has one of the best development environments, in my opinion. Mix is fantastic, releases are easy, and Elixir's error messages in IEx are the clearest I've seen in my 30+ year career.
I use Emacs to write code, and beyond syntax coloring, I don't want anything else, so you may have a point if you're talking about IDE support.
This is really cool! Not just that, we actually really needed something like this in Elixir for a lot of projects and always had to end up going with some NodeJS implementation. Thank you <3
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https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/mnesia.html
Although it would be great if it spoke SQL, maybe one day it will: https://github.com/elixir-dbvisor/sql since we can already pass it and get the AST.
no regrets. the ecosystem has been pretty solid for everything we've wanted to do. Stability/performance has been very good.
also: if you're looking for a high profile startup using elixir, supabase is almost entirely elixir and discord uses it for some critical parts.
https://elixir-lang.org/cases.html
During the pandemic, our elixir app sent/received 45 million text messages, helped schedule 1.5 million vaccination appointments, and a few million COVID testing appointments.
It all scaled and performed flawlessly. Any bugs were our fault :-)
I felt like I was seeing the future when I saw the visualization/rendering of PeerConnection stats on the server side. The video compositor is really neat also how they have it working with live modifications.
I wish I had more time/a chance to use it on a project myself.
Be aware that parts of their stack use a custom license for some components... but a large portion of it is OSS Apache 2.0, which is nice if you can stick to those parts!
If the latter, Elixir has one of the best development environments, in my opinion. Mix is fantastic, releases are easy, and Elixir's error messages in IEx are the clearest I've seen in my 30+ year career.
I use Emacs to write code, and beyond syntax coloring, I don't want anything else, so you may have a point if you're talking about IDE support.
There were 3 LSP implementations. they’re getting combined, so IDE support should improve.
There’s technically a step through debugger, but it’s extremely slow if you actually get it working.
There is a new type system too.