August 01, 2023

162: Elixir to WebAssembly with Orb

50 minutes

WebAssembly is an interesting technology that feels completely separate from Elixir. Patrick Smith created an Elixir project called Orb, an Elixir DSL for WebAssembly. He also shows how a WebAssembly component can play a meaningful role in a LiveView page! We talk more about what WebAssembly is, the promise for the technology, how it can improve UX, and where Patrick sees real practical applications for Elixir developers.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/162

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix LiveView released v0.19.5

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1681719691503386632 – Will the Elixir type system make it harder for beginners?

https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1683468212975939585 – New Req feature that makes it easy to stream a response.

https://andrealeopardi.com/posts/breakdown-of-http-clients-in-elixir/ – Andrea Leopardi wrote a helpful post about HTTP clients in Elixir.

https://www.thestackcanary.com/from-python-pytorch-to-elixir-nx/ – An article titled “From Python to Elixir Machine Learning” has been getting some attention recently about moving from Python PyTorch to Elixir-Nx.

https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1681422911763107841 – Sean Moriarity's book "Machine Learning in Elixir" is now in beta

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/154 – Previous interview with Sean Moriarity - Serving Up AI with Sean Moriarity

https://pragprog.com/titles/smelixir/machine-learning-in-elixir/ – Machine Learning in Elixir book

https://twitter.com/ElixirMembrane/status/1679129777490280449 – The Membrane Framework announced they are planning a conference in October.

https://rtcon.live/ – Membrane Framework conference will be October 12-14 in Krakow Poland.

https://twitter.com/IScottMing/status/1682307757695979521 – Lexical LSP now supports Elixir 1.15

https://github.com/lexical-lsp/lexical/issues/244 – Github issue for tracking Lexical LSP and OTP 26 support

https://paraxial.io/blog/still-safe – Michael Lubas wrote a new security blog post about Elixir in response to a research paper.

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Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/royalicing/status/1671689512685301762 – Orb, a friendly DSL for WebAssembly

https://icing.space/2023/introducing-orb

https://hexdocs.pm/orb/Orb.html

https://github.com/RoyalIcing/Orb – Orb Github project

https://calculated.world/

https://icing.space/2023/how-is-a-webassembly-module-like-a-ruby-class

https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/09/01/dockyard-r-d-firefly-optimizes-your-elixir-compilation

https://getfirefly.org/ – Firefly project

https://github.com/GetFirefly/firefly – Firefly Github project

https://www.figma.com/blog/webassembly-cut-figmas-load-time-by-3x/

https://www.figma.com/

https://github.com/RoyalIcing/OrbWasmtime

https://hex.pm/packages/rustler

https://github.com/viniarck/wasmtime-ex

https://github.com/tessi/wasmex

https://github.com/christhekeele/matcha

https://components.guide/color

https://github.com/grych/drab

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/royalicing – on Twitter

https://github.com/royalicing/ – on Github

https://hachyderm.io/@royalicing – on Fediverse

https://icing.space/ – Blog

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