Top 10 Nif Open-Source Projects

Rustler

35 4,154 8.6 Rust

Safe Rust bridge for creating Erlang NIF functions

Project mention: AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-09

For performance intensive tasks, you could rely on Rust NIFs, there is this great project: https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler
My last project with Elixir was using Elixir merely as an orchestrator of static binaries (developed in golang) which were talking in JSON via stdin/stdout.

blender_niftools_addon

30 369 7.6 Python

The Blender Niftools Addon is a Blender add-on to enable import and export of NetImmese File Formats including .nif, .kf, .egm.

Project mention: Need help getting Skyrim SE models to work in blender. | /r/skyrimmods | 2023-05-21

I used this plugin to import to blender (also export from blender) https://github.com/niftools/blender_niftools_addon

InfluxDB

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jaxon

1 193 0.0 HTML

Streaming JSON parser for Elixir
nimler

1 98 0.0 Nim

Erlang/Elixir NIFs in Nim
wireguardex

4 63 5.3 Elixir

Configure WireGuard® interfaces in Elixir using Rust NIFs.
pyffi

3 46 0.0 Python

PyFFI is a Python library for processing block structured files.

Project mention: Batch edit NIF files | /r/skyrimmods | 2023-11-14

exor_filter

0 31 0.0 C

Erlang nif for xor_filter. 'Faster and Smaller Than Bloom and Cuckoo Filters'.
WorkOS

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efuse_filter

1 6 0.0 C

Erlang NIF for Binary Fuse Filter. Fast and Smaller Than Xor Filters.
ex_rtmidi

1 4 0.0 C++

An Elixir wrapper for the RtMidi library
ex_alsa

0 2 3.9 Elixir

ALSA NIFs in C for Elixir.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).