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 show@thinkingelixir.com

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

Thinking Elixir Podcast

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