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Interfacing Elixir with Rust to Improve Performance

Found on 9 August 2023 via Mastodon 450

via Erlang & Elixir Weekly: Interfacing Elixir with Rust to Improve Performance: Discord’s Story

Interfacing Elixir with Rust to Improve Performance: Discord’s Story

(My take: I was an Elixir developer for a few years and was often surprised by the performance and reliability available in that environment. That said, being a VM with garbage collection has some inherent limits. Though I have no need to work in Elixir space any more, I do kind of dig this “optimize the most important parts” approach.)

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