Thinking Elixir Podcast

12: All a Flutter over NIFs and Ports with Connor Rigby

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We catch up with Connor Rigby and learn about his recent Flutter work for Nerves. We take this opportunity to get his perspective on when to choose NIFs or Ports for native integrations, how to make NIFs more portable, get a recommendation for multimedia processing and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/12

Elixir Community News

  • https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1299377514545057792 – Chris McCord doing work on LiveView uploads
  • https://hex.pm/blog/vulnerability-report-system – Hex.pm received a new security feature
  • https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/tag/3.14.0 – Rebar3 version 3.14 released
  • https://lpil.uk/blog/gleam-v0.11-released/ – Gleam v0.11 was released

    • Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

    Discussion Resources

    • https://binarynoggin.com/making-nifs-portable/
    • https://binarynoggin.com/connor-rigby-joins-binary-noggin/ – Announcement that Connor joined BinaryNoggin
    • https://flutter.dev/ – Google’s Flutter project
    • https://dockyard.com/blog/2020/05/11/elixir-nifs-xbox-kinect-and-liveview – Mike Binns article that prompted his post
    • https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect
    • https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
    • https://github.com/elixir-circuits/circuits_uart – Project Connor uses as a template for Ports
    • Nerves doesn’t use NIFs at all internally
    • http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/c_port.html
    • http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html
    • http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html
    • https://github.com/ConnorRigby/elixir-python-port-example
    • http://erlport.org/
    • https://www.membraneframework.org/
    • https://github.com/membraneframework
    • https://octoprint.org/

      • Guest Information

      • https://twitter.com/pressy4pie – on Twitter
      • https://github.com/ConnorRigby/ – on Github

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