Akka VS Elixir

Compare Akka vs Elixir and see what are their differences.

Elixir

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications (by elixir-lang)
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Akka Elixir
33 133
12,905 23,075
0.3% 2.3%
9.4 9.9
7 days ago about 7 hours ago
Scala Elixir
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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Akka

Posts with mentions or reviews of Akka. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-06.
  • Modern Async Primitives on iOS, Android, and the Web
    4 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2023
    Kotlin also has a construct for asynchronous collections/streams. Kotlin's version of AsyncSequence is called a Flow. Just as Swift's AsyncSequence builds upon prior experience with RxSwift and Combine, Kotlin's Flow APIs build upon earlier stream/collection APIs in the JVM ecosystem: Java's RxJava, Java8 Streams, Project Reactor, and Scala's Akka.
  • What are the current hot topics in type theory and static analysis?
    15 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 8 May 2023
    First-class distributed and multicore computing. Swift has first-class “actors” and “distributed” methods. Unison, Erlang, and Elixir are built with distributed being one of the #1 concerns. Though first-class is not super common and I don't really expect it to be because usually libraries are enough (e.g. Scala has Akka and is used WIDELY for distributed); whereas something like linear types and typed effects, you can't emulate in a library.
  • Anything close beam/otp for other languages?
    7 projects | /r/elixir | 7 Apr 2023
    Akka is a library that implements the actor model for JVM languages. Mainly in Scala, but you can use it in Java too, and maybe others. It doesn't feel as ergonomic as Elixir, but if Elixir is too "out there" for the decision makers in your case, this might be a friendlier alternative.
  • Carl Hewitt has died [pdf]
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2023
  • About Elixir and the microservices architecture
    3 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022
    Note Akka, the Java & friends framework, is working with the actor model and have as main inspiration Erlang to mimic some features of the BEAM on top of the JVM.
  • Akka will no longer be Open Source
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022
    If I hear about Actor model, the first thing that comes to my mind is the popular Open Source library Akka.
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022
    Lightbend, the company owning Akka, recently shared a blog post signed by the CEO announcing a license change from Apache 2.0 to Business Source License 1.1, a proprietary license. You can already find it in this PR, merged a couple days ago.
  • Why We Are Changing the License for Akka
    2 projects | /r/scala | 7 Sep 2022
    Akka 2.6 is on the open source Apache license, that is unchanged (its not possible for Lightbend to change an existing license). Its only the new Akka 2.7 which has the BSL license, so as long as you don't upgrade you are fine. See https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/31561.
  • We Are Changing the License for Akka
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2022
    Here is Akka's dependency specification: https://github.com/akka/akka/blob/main/project/Dependencies....

    How many of these would have to opt for this source available approach before Akka would no longer be sustainable?

    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2022
    I don't think that the Akka change is aimed at cloud providers. Akka is a toolkit for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications for Java and Scala [1]. It's not possible for AWS to offer their own "Akka service" the way they offered Redis through ElastiCache. This change affects companies that build software using Akka, many of which may not be software-focused. For example, here's a case study of an oilfield services company that uses Akka:

    https://www.lightbend.com/blog/low-cpu-utilization-fortune-5...

    [1] As found on https://akka.io/

Elixir

Posts with mentions or reviews of Elixir. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.
  • Perfect Elixir: Environment Setup
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    I’m on MacOS and erlang.org, elixir-lang.org, and postgresql.org all suggest installation via Homebrew, which is a very popular package manager for MacOS.
  • Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
    19 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2024
    6. Elixir - $96,381
  • Meet entr, the standalone file watcher
    4 projects | dev.to | 2 Nov 2023
    As you might have guessed, one of the main use cases for entr is to rerun tests whenever files change. I'm an Elixir engineer, and I use entr to run mix test continuously whenever I save an Elixir file.
  • Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
    14 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2023
    The Elixir programming language is no stranger to desktop applications as the language actually supports building them out of the box. It uses wxWidgets: a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, macOS, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. But wxWidgets has a very complex API, and doesn’t solve issues that usually come with desktop applications around packaging.
  • Show HN: Podsee – AI tool for podcast listeners
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Oct 2023
    Hi everyone, I just launched Podsee(https://pods.ee) for podcast listeners, lovers. You can search and listen to podcasts at Podsee. What makes it different is that you can get the AI transcript for an episode.

    It started as a side project after I resigned my job one year ago. As a programmer, I love Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/) and Phoenix LiveView(https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view), and want to make a product with it. So I build Podsee.

    I'm planning to add more AI features to it, like summarize the episode audio, episode to comics, etc.

    I'd love to invite you all to try out the product and would appreciate hearing your feedback! Thanks!

  • A Linguagem Lua completa 30 anos!
    3 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2023
    Elixir, criada por José Valim, egresso da USP (Engenharia Poli-USP) https://elixir-lang.org/
  • Programming Languages Every Developer Should Watch Out For
    3 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2023
    4. Elixir
  • Lightweight dev tools.
    14 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2023
    Sadly, this isn't true for all languages. I spend most of my days working on and with the Ash project in Elixir. Whilst Lapce has syntax highlighting for Elixir there is no language server plugin available yet. There are at least two plugins in development, but given I can't figure out how to install them in my local editor to test them I can't speak to their quality.
  • Elixir for Cynical Curmudgeons
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023
    > if is a macro.

    > def is a macro.

    > defmodule is a macro.

    > It’s all macros. It’s ALL MACROS! ALL THE WAY DOWN! AAAAAAAAAA AHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAA!

    Also see the definition for `defmacro`, the macro for defining macros, which is defined using... defmacro

    https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.15/lib/elixir/...

  • Meta to release open-source commercial AI model
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2023
    Career dev who had the cash and wanted to experiment with anything that can be done concurrently, such as in my language of choice lately, which features high concurrency (https://elixir-lang.org/) or these LLM's, or anything else that can be done in massively parallel fashion (which is, perhaps surprisingly, only a minority of possible computer work, but it still means I can run many apps without much slowdown!)

    I originally had 2 2080ti's to experiment also with virtio/proxmox (you need 1 for the host and 1 for any VM you run). I never got that running successfully at the time, but then Proton got really good (I mainly just wanted to run windows games fast in a VM, but that circumvented that). Later on I upgraded one of them to a 3080ti.

    It's a System76 machine, they make good stuff

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Akka and Elixir you can also consider the following projects:

Vert.x - Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM

Apache ZooKeeper - Apache ZooKeeper

Hazelcast - Hazelcast is a unified real-time data platform combining stream processing with a fast data store, allowing customers to act instantly on data-in-motion for real-time insights.

Hystrix - Hystrix is a latency and fault tolerance library designed to isolate points of access to remote systems, services and 3rd party libraries, stop cascading failure and enable resilience in complex distributed systems where failure is inevitable.

JGroups - The JGroups project

rust - Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

solidity - Solidity, the Smart Contract Programming Language

crystal - The Crystal Programming Language

Lagom - Reactive Microservices for the JVM

Atomix - A Kubernetes toolkit for building distributed applications using cloud native principles

rust - Rust for the xtensa architecture. Built in targets for the ESP32 and ESP8266

Finagle - A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system