Using Rust with Elixir for code reuse and performance

• phoenix_live_view

  30 5,749 9.8 Elixir

  Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML

  

What's more, Phoenix Live View has made building interactive pages simpler than ever. It often removes the need for a complex front-end framework like React or Vue and an associated API.

• doctave

  13 521 0.0 Rust

  A batteries-included developer documentation site generator

  

Reuse code from our open source documentation generator CLI that is built in Rust

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• earmark

  2 841 7.2 Elixir

  Markdown parser for Elixir

It turned out that making the most popular Elixir Markdown processor, Earmark (originally written by Dave Thomas) and pulldown-cmark, a Rust Markdown processor, produce the same output was going to be difficult. We also required some customization that was not available in both libraries.

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

Doctave.com is primarily built on the Elixir language. Specifically the Phoenix Web framework. Some key parts of our stack however are built in Rust and in this post we'll examine the reasons why and how this works in practice.

• pulldown-cmark

  8 1,923 9.1 Rust

  An efficient, reliable parser for CommonMark, a standard dialect of Markdown

  

It turned out that making the most popular Elixir Markdown processor, Earmark (originally written by Dave Thomas) and pulldown-cmark, a Rust Markdown processor, produce the same output was going to be difficult. We also required some customization that was not available in both libraries.

• doctave-markdown

  1 10 0.0 Rust

  Doctave-specific markdown parser

  

In the end we extracted the Markdown processor code from our Rust CLI into its own crate: doctave-markdown. This crate wraps pulldown-cmark with some specific flags and customization, and sanitizes the final HTML.

• Elixir

  133 23,193 9.8 Elixir

  Elixir is a dynamic, functional language for building scalable and maintainable applications

  

Doctave.com is primarily built on the Elixir language. Specifically the Phoenix Web framework. Some key parts of our stack however are built in Rust and in this post we'll examine the reasons why and how this works in practice.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Rustler

  35 4,154 8.6 Rust

  Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions

  

Luckily, there is a great project called Rustler. It makes implementing NIFs in Rust a breeze. In our case, all we needed was ~100 lines of glue code that mapped Rust data structures to Elixir and did some argument parsing. Then we were ready to call our Rust code from Elixir.

• benchee

  7 1,373 8.7 Elixir

  Easy and extensible benchmarking in Elixir providing you with lots of statistics!

  

First for Elixir. (Measured with Benchee)

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