January 11, 2022

81: Elixir in a Burrito with Quinn and Digit

53 minutes

We talk with Digit and Quinn Wilton about the Burrito project. It wraps up Elixir to a single binary, enables cross-platform builds, and uses Zig to help while also enabling NIFs! They share how the security focused software they create uses this to run in isolated environments where Elixir can’t be installed. A really cool project that can be used for one-off scripts, long running CLI applications with full OTP features and more. They share some of the challenges they had to overcome in creating Burrito and how it being OpenSource helps the company and their project.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/81

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.13.1 – Elixir 1.13.1 released. Bug fixes.

https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon – BeaconCMS announced by Dockyard

https://twitter.com/1stAvenger/status/1474167882946957313 – Mike Binns talks about his work on BeaconCMS

https://github.com/cloveapp/notion_renderer – Steve Bussey released a Notion renderer for Phoenix

https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html – Zig release updates

https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1477196958179680256 – Wojtek Mach gives context to the Zig release for Elixir

https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_br/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v1180 – Nerves updates in time for the New Year

https://twitter.com/NervesProject/status/1477054737921060869 – Nerves update announcement on Twitter

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2/posts/3394103 – Grisp 2 Boards Kickstarter update

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

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/burrito-elixir/burrito

https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run – Wojtek Mach's experiment

https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware

https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware – Bakeware project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8-9yZlye30 – Quinn's talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQb58bqwDOc – Digit's talk

https://www.synopsys.com/

https://hex.pm/packages/teex

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir_make

https://github.com/ndreynolds/ratatouille

https://github.com/nsf/termbox

https://ziglang.org/

https://llvm.org/

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/wilton_quinn – Quinn on Twitter

https://github.com/QuinnWilton/ – Quinn on Github

https://quinnwilton.com/ – Quinn's Site

https://twitter.com/doawoo – Digit on Twitter

https://github.com/doawoo – Digit on Github

https://puppy.surf – Digit's Site

Find us online

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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward