This is the Future of Webdev. Crazy, Right?

[AstonJ]

It’s always interesting to hear your thoughts ODL

@OvermindDL1

The Erlang VM is awesome though, especially as an orchestrational glue between parts written in native fast languages like rust.

I always think of Erlang/Elixir being the ‘brains’ of an app - basically co-ordinating everything else (like the muscle ) however it’s great that you can get really far with Elixir itself (particularly with things like Phoenix and LiveView)

@OvermindDL1

Phoenix channels are such a fascinating abstraction that even Rocket.rs is copying it, same names and terminology, lol.

Ah that’s interesting! A great indication that Phoenix got it right

@OvermindDL1

And you don’t need immutability, you need either safe or no aliasing, which yes means you need immutability in most languages, but in languages like Rust you don’t, it has safe aliasing, even mutably, which means you can have both performance and safety of code where pure immutability has overhead you can’t get rid of. Pure functions are good though, to make a function impure in rust means you have to touch unsafe or something wrapping unsafe, lol, and of course without the aliasing issues then it’s safe to do as long as the unsafe code is written safe.

Rust is definitely cool - and so interesting! I can’t wait to start learning it, and I do wonder whether you should write a book about it one day!? Maybe even if it’s a Rust for Beginners or Get Started With Rust book that can be read before other books?