Hacker News with Generative AI: Elixir

Elixir-like pipes in Ruby (oh no not again) (zverok.space)
On a new approach to implement that long-envied feature.
Avoiding recompilation hell in Elixir with mix xref (r.ena.to)
Elixir is an amazing language and it’s been a huge privilege being able to work with it for over a decade now (how time flies)!
Managing Distributed State with GenServers in Phoenix and Elixir (appsignal.com)
Phoenix and Elixir are designed at their core to build real-time, fault-tolerant applications. With its elegant syntax and the robustness of the Erlang VM, Elixir is an ideal candidate for tackling the challenges of distributed state management.
Zigler: Zig NIFs in Elixir (github.com/E-xyza)
Zigler is available in Hex, and the package can be installed by adding zigler to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:
Bringing full text search to Elixir's Ecto (moosie.us)
ParadeDB 0.11.0 dropped last week with lots of improvements, including an overhauled API.
Ask HN: Why Isn't Elixir More Popular? (ycombinator.com)
It seems that when implemented correctly, running full-stack Elixir can greatly simplify complicated distributed systems. In-memory storage can replace a cache, and the architecture itself can replace a message queue. Horizontal or even vertical scaling can replace complicated scaling mechanisms.
Serialization Is the Secret (zachdaniel.dev)
One of the major elements that sets Elixir apart from most other programming languages is immutability. But what does that actually mean? What does it do for us?
Elixir's LiveView pairs beautifully with front end frameworks (twitter.com)
AI GPU Clusters, from Your Laptop, with Livebook (fly.io)
Livebook, FLAME, and the Nx stack: three Elixir components that are easy to describe, more powerful than they look, and intricately threaded into the Elixir ecosystem. A few weeks ago, Chris McCord (👋) and Chris Grainger showed them off at ElixirConf 2024. We thought the talk was worth a recap.
Create your first LiveView Native (Elixir) Application (dockyard.com)
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Elixir Macros Demystified: defmacro and require (arrowsmithlabs.com)
This is Part 3 in a series on Elixir macros - what they are, why they matter, and how to use them.
Silos in the Elixir Community (zachdaniel.dev)
A few years ago, someone asked on the Elixir slack “Is the Ash project dead?” Thats how I knew something was wrong.
Building a WoW (World of Warcraft) Server in Elixir (pikdum.dev)
Thistle Tea is my new World of Warcraft private server project. You can log in, create a character, run around, and cast spells to kill mobs, with everything synchronized between players as expected for an MMO.
To Nerves from Elixir (underjord.io)
Typing lists and tuples in Elixir (elixir-lang.org)
Soft Deletes with Ecto and PostgreSQL (dashbit.co)
The official Elixir Language Server team (elixir-lang.org)
Check Maybe Div by Zero for Gleam (hexdocs.pm)
Building a Wow Server in Elixir (pikdum.dev)
Building a World of Warcraft Server in Elixir (pikdum.dev)
The Soul of Erlang and Elixir – Talk by Sasa Juric [video] (youtube.com)
Unification in Elixir (ericpfahl.com)
Elixir Anti-Patterns (hexdocs.pm)
Two million checkboxes (written in Elixir) (twomillioncheckboxes.com)
Elixir for Humans Who Know Python (hibox.live)
Elixir for Python Developers (petal.build)
Elixir Gotchas (wordpress.com)
Learning Machine Learning in Elixir (zacksiri.dev)
Orb: Write WebAssembly with Elixir (useorb.dev)
Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 (elixir-lang.org)