Rustler Alternatives

Rustler reviews and mentions

• Async Rust Is A Bad Language
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2023

  Elixir/Rust is the new Python/C++, and Rustler makes the communicating between the 2 languages super easy: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

• Why elixir over Golang
  10 projects | /r/elixir | 29 May 2023

  Rustler is so awesome for this. Write Elixir NIFs in Rust? Yes, please!

• Is RUST a good choice for building web browsers?
  6 projects | /r/rust | 27 May 2023
• Why do you enjoy systems programming languages?
  2 projects | /r/rust | 25 May 2023

  But really, I would suggest thinking about what you want to build before "how" or "with which tool" - one of the signs of a person becoming a good engineer is having an array of tools at their disposal and being able to choose a correct tool for the correct task. Rust also excels in integrating with other languages - with JS via WebAssembly (a bit of self-promotion, for example), with Elixir via Rustler, with Python via PyO3 and PyOxidizer, etc. So you absolutely can start writing a frontend app with JS, or a distributed system with Elixir, or a data processing/ML app with Python and use Rust to speed up critical parts of those. Or, in reverse, you can start with Rust & add new capabilities to whatever you're building, that being a frontend, a resilient chat interface, or an ML model.

• PasswordRs 0.1.0 released (Rust NIF for password hashing)
  4 projects | /r/elixir | 24 Apr 2023

  I created a elixir (wrapper) library to generate password hashes. Other Elixir libraries use a C NIF to generate password hashes. This libary uses a Rust NIF (using Rustler) and the Rust libraries the generate the different hashes. Additionally this library uses RustlerPrecompiled so you don't need to have a Rust compiler installed to use this library. It supports argon2, scrypt, brypt and pbkdf2.

• Elixir and Rust is a good mix
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2023

  > I guess, why not use Rust entirely instead of as a FFI into Elixir or other backend language?

  Because Rust brings none of the benefits of the BEAM ecosystem to the table.

  I was an early Elixir adopter, not working currently as an Elixir developer, but I have deployed one of the largest Elixir applications for a private company in my country.

  I know it has limits, but the language itself is only a small part of the whole.

  Take ML, Jose Valim and Sean Moriarity have studied the problem, made a plan to tackle it and started solving it piece by piece [1] in a tightly integrated manner, it feels natural, as if Elixir always had those capabilities in a way that no other language does and to put the icing on the cake the community released Livebook [2] to interactively explore code and use the new tools in the simplest way possible, something that Python notebooks only dream of being capable of, after a decade of progress

  That's not to say that Elixir is superior as a language, but that the ecosystem is flourishing and the community is able to extract the 100% of the benefits from the tools and create new marvellously crafted ones, that push the limits forward every time, in such a simple manner, that it looks like magic.

  And going back to Rust, you can write Rust if you need speed or for whatever reason you feel it's the right tool for the job, it's totally integrated [3][4], again in a way that many other languages can only dream of, and it's in fact the reason I've learned Rust in the first place.

  The opposite is not true, if you write Rust, you write Rust, and that's it. You can't take advantage of the many features the BEAM offers, OTP, hot code reloading, full inspection of running systems, distribution, scalability, fault tolerance, soft real time etc. etc. etc.

  But of course if you don't see any advantage in them, it means you probably don't need them (one other option is that you still don't know you want them :] ). In that case Rust is as good as any other language, but for a backend, even though I gently despise it, Java (or Kotlin) might be a better option.

  [1] https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx https://github.com/elixir-nx/axon

  [2] https://livebook.dev/

  [3] https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

  [4] https://dashbit.co/blog/rustler-precompiled

• It's legos all the way down
  3 projects | dev.to | 17 Feb 2023

  unfortunately as of the time of this writing, rustler does not support generic type intefaces so I guess this is impossible?

• When Rust Hurts
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2023

  One thing that drew me to Rust was actually Elixir/Erlang calling out to it for certain specialized needs. Within Elixir/Erlang you get best of breed concurrency but exiting the BEAM to run other code is unsafe. Calling out to Rust, however, comes with great safety guarantees.

  Managing concurrency outside of Rust and then calling Rust for the more focused and specialized work is a good combination IMO.

  https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

• Why we built a Rust-powered desktop app for previewing documentation
  2 projects | dev.to | 2 Feb 2023

  Doctave's core documentation project parsing code is written in Rust and we call it libdoctave. It takes as input a bunch of files and creates an in-memory structure that you can use to render a Doctave documentation site. It is used both in the desktop app and on our web platform, written in Elixir, via Rustler.

• About Elixir and the microservices architecture
  3 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022

  In the case of Elixir, there is fantastic tools helping you to stay in a monolithic approach. I think about Rustler to add safe machine code written in Rust to your project, or even Nx for AI purposes (like Numpy in the Python ecosystem) which can make use of the GPU for intensive scientific computations.

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