Having experienced them, goroutines are NOT fun. Especially when you have to debug them in anger. Their simplicity is at best equivalent to spawn/1 and while there is more ceremony in something like task, that buys you safety (supervision trees) and testability ($callers)
ityonemo
ityonemo
Goroutines are async, except with implicit suspends at ends of function calls, and no await (fire and forget). They are like spawn, which is async, except with implicit suspends between reductions and no await. The latency spikes of go relative to Erlang is likely due to gc struggling to refcount correctly across shared state.
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Sebb
I have a (too) complex firebase system in production right now. It is amazing what you can do with so little.
But now that I’m more and more into Elixir I’d really like to just rewrite everything in Elixir. I’m actually looking into Elixir because I want to rebuild an embedded device with nerves. There we’d replace a lot of different technologies all with Elixir. And over time I’m realizing we could even transform our complete backend into Elixir. That’s really just amazing. So back to the chat thing: I’ve found this about the slack-tech-stack:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-tech-stack-behind-Slack
Big part of the stuff could just be Elixir.
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Skysoft13
can I develop any project with elixir instead of golang ,django or …? elixir will be enough for me for any project like video streaming, image processing etc?
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