April 19, 2022

95: Rustler Precompiled with Philip Sampaio

38 minutes

The recent announcement of Rustler Precompiled prompted a lot of interest and questions. We talk with Philip Sampaio to understand what he created and what problem it helps solve. The project helps lower the bar for using Rust libraries for NIFs in Elixir making it possible to see more libraries using Rustler in the future. He explains what prompted the work initially and how projects can benefit from it. We discuss what it means for internal company projects and especially for libraries. He explains how the project addresses the many architecture and platform combinations too. We end with learning about his sample CI project that shows us how to set up our own CI systems to use it.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/95

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4742 – Phoenix presence client

https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1511393478873427982 – Twitter thread discussing the Phoenix presence client

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/changelog.html#0-17-8-2022-04-06 – LiveView 0.17.8 released. Includes the HEEx template formatter

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.HTMLFormatter.html – Docs on how to set it up

Issues discussing VS Code problems

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/vscode-elixir-ls/issues/242

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/vscode-elixir-ls/issues/241

https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on – flame_on library updated

https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/02/22/profiling-elixir-applications-with-flame-graphs-and-flame-on – Original flame_on announcement post for more info

https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1513630468490645509 – Oban adds “inline mode” to make testing more straightforward

https://www.mitchellhanberg.com/how-eex-turns-your-template-into-html/ – Mitchell Hanberg wrote an article about how EEx works

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/92 – Previous interview with Mitchell Hanberg

https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir/exercises/take-a-number-deluxe – Exercism.io GenServer learning exercise was added.

https://twitter.com/atyborska93/status/1513807461043552256 – Angelika shares about the Exercism.io update

https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1512100896653590535 – Andrea Leopardi is working at Apple now on their Environment team.

https://www.apple.com/environment/ – More about the Apple Environment team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7t7zca8SyM – “Elixir in 100 seconds” video

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Discussion Resources

https://dashbit.co/blog/rustler-precompiled

https://twitter.com/philipsampaio/status/1503809314489831441

https://github.com/philss/rustler_precompiled

https://github.com/philss/rustler_precompilation_example

https://github.com/philss/floki

https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

https://github.com/servo/html5ever

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

https://hex.pm/packages?search=depends%3Ahexpm%3Arustler&sort=total_downloads – Current Hex packages using rustler

https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/tree/main/nx#readme

https://elixir-nx.github.io/explorer/Explorer.DataFrame.html

https://www.pola.rs/

https://github.com/discord/sorted_set_nif

https://ziglang.org/

https://github.com/ityonemo/zigler

https://github.com/philss/rustler_precompiled/blob/main/PRECOMPILATION_GUIDE.md

https://github.com/philss/rustler_precompilation_example

Guest Information

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

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

https://dashbit.co/blog – Dashbit blog where he writes

https://phils.dev – Personal blog

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