nerves
Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir (by nerves-project)
lumen
An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly (by GetFirefly)
| nerves | lumen | |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | 28 | |
| 2,150 | 3,585 | |
| 0.7% | 0.6% | |
| 8.4 | 5.4 | |
| 13 days ago | 7 months ago | |
| Elixir | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
nerves
Posts with mentions or reviews of nerves.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-15.
- Embedded Elixir
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Where Nerves-related Mix tasks are defined?
The nerves package's README.md explains what each repository is responsible for with a comprehensive listing.
- Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences
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Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages
You may be already aware of it, but just in case, there is the Nerves project: https://nerves-project.org/
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Mixing sync and async views in the same application
As for embedded... I've only dabbled. Yeah you're not going to run Elixir on an Arduino or other very minimal bare metal embedded processor. But the Nerves Project (https://nerves-project.org/) which runs Elixir directly on SBCs is very well regarded. But either way it doesn't matter, since I thought we were talking about web dev, which is where Phoenix and Elixir just make more sense, for me.
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what is the common usage of elixir
For me particularly I like it for things like APIs, Web Platforms (lower resource usage than other languages), and embedded devices via Nerves. However I've also used it on my endpoints to monitor them via Erlang's built in os_mon. Another usage is the distributed nature of erlang can allow you to do things like connect two nodes and run code on a remote node via remote procedure calls. This would allow you to execute something in a nearby geolocated node and reduce latency. Fly.io did a talk on this feature.
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Functional programming language for embedded devices?
Check out nerves, a set of tools and libraries for embedded development with Elixir.
- Craft and deploy bulletproof embedded software in Elixir
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A native Go userland for your Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 appliances
Is this kinda like the Nerves approach but for Golang? (https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves)
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Use case of elixir
Nerves is also popular for embedded.
lumen
Posts with mentions or reviews of lumen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-18.
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Firefly – A new compiler and runtime for BEAM languages
There are details on this also: https://github.com/GetFirefly/firefly#runtime
Generally it should be assumed that actors and their concurrency model is fully supported as that is a part of the core semantics for BEAM languages.
- Firefly – an MLIR-based compiler and runtime for BEAM languages
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DockYard R&D: FireFly Optimizes Your Elixir Compilation
I think this project used to be called Lumen until pretty recently - https://github.com/GetFirefly/firefly
- Elixir – Phoenix LiveView Native
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Is there a way to create client-side interactivity like Vue or React with only Elixir?
Probably not a practical solution for what you are building now, but it's worth pointing out Lumen, an Erlang VM implementation that compiles to WebAssembly, and could one day enable Elixir on the frontend.
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You had a head start, Gopher, but you can't outrun this crab.
Another vector could be some tooling that makes it easy to run Go programs compiled to Wasm run inside of Wasmtime environment hosted in Rust. If we run the go tooling in the same system, one could point this tool at a Go repo and be running that Go in a matter of milliseconds. A fun feature would be running channels across separate Wasm envs. Or maybe use Lumen.
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If you were in charge of a startup tech stack, how would you use elixir to actually scale and make every work seamlessly?
Wish the Elixir WASM project -- Lumen -- were active. It seems like nothing much is happening on it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nerves and lumen you can also consider the following projects:
tamago - TamaGo - ARM/RISC-V bare metal Go
wasmex - Execute WebAssembly from Elixir
libcluster - Automatic cluster formation/healing for Elixir applications
lunatic - Lunatic is an Erlang-inspired runtime for WebAssembly
live_svelte - Svelte inside Phoenix LiveView with seamless end-to-end reactivity
gleam - ⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
erlexec - Execute and control OS processes from Erlang/OTP
purerl - Erlang backend for the PureScript compiler
cubdb - Elixir embedded key/value database
Gradualizer - A Gradual type system for Erlang
nerves_livebook - Develop on embedded devices with Livebook and Nerves
lumen - A private Lumina server for IDA Pro