A LiveView Is a Process

• made-with-liveview

  3 97 2.8

  Explore the real-world potential of Phoenix LiveView through a showcase of impressive web applications.

You can find some here: https://github.com/caspg/made-with-liveview

• golive

  2 28 7.4 Go

  LiveView for Go (by canopyclimate)

  

I think it is more exciting and more innovative to think about LiveView as a new architectural approach to building reactive applications. Yes in Elixir land it is a Process and there are some amazing things about the BEAM. But LiveViews have the potential have an impact beyond just the Elixir ecosystem and folks should embrace that.

I’ve been a part of porting the Phoenix LiveView Protocol to both Javascript (https://LiveViewJS.com) and Go (https://github.com/canopyclimate/golive) backends and supported a friend that is porting it to Python.

Ironically I think taking LiveViews outside of Elixir could actually make it easier for folks to adopt an Elixir in the future.

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• nx

  36 2,467 9.3 Elixir

  Multi-dimensional arrays (tensors) and numerical definitions for Elixir (by elixir-nx)

  

It is historically not great at number computing. This is being addressed by a relatively new project called Nx. https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx

It is not the right choice for CPU intensive tasks like graphics, HFT, etc. Some companies have used Rust to write native extensions for those kinds of problems. https://discord.com/blog/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...

• pyview

  2 17 4.1 Python

  A Python implementation of Phoenix LiveView

• ractor

  10 1,235 7.7 Rust

  Rust actor framework

If you look at my comment history, you'll see I'm well familiar with the BEAM.

I'm in full agreement with you, but I'm not sure you need full robust process supervision trees to mimic what the BEAM does in the context of LiveView on a single machine.

I do want to say, I 100000% times prefer Elixir, it's tooling, ecosystem, web frameworks, easy of scaling vertically and horizontally, etc over Go or any other lang that probably do something analogous to LiveView via what ever concurrency primitives that language/runtime champions; Go with it's Communicating sequential processes(CSP) and Rust with the Ractor lib (https://github.com/slawlor/ractor).

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