95: Rustler Precompiled with Philip Sampaio

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 Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] 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 Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!