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

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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95: Rustler Precompiled with Philip Sampaio

Thinking Elixir Podcast

95: Rustler Precompiled with Philip Sampaio