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This is what I've been doing for a few years now. Some apps require Google Play Services (Revolut?), some show a warning that can be ignored and run fine afterwards (Authy, Signal), some have limited functionality like no notifications (Slack), but many work just fine (Firefox, Spotify, and even Messenger Lite)

Is bucklescript half-baked in your opinion? Why?

Probably yes, the LLVM linker is really slow

Selenium / WebDriver has a HTTP API so you can have clients in any language, not just in Java

How is the DevTools/Remote protocol better (or worse) than WebDriver prptocol for integration testing?

Contacts can be easily exported to a file and imported

It seems similar to Ruby, but in the end it's more like Prolog

Until it overheats and throttles :)

LCD displays where backlight is actively controlled probably still draw more power when displaying black than white

Some people put it in an oven for a while but it seems like a little risky and sometimes it's only a temporary fix as well

Does hiting F2 in Firefox freeze the browser side of things (mouse position, mouse click state, css animations state, select dropdown openness state), basically everything? Or are there other tools for that? I have more problems with "debugging" CSS than javascript

All that hype on property based testing is just moving prolog to different platforms

Maybe this book: Computer Organization and Design - RISC-V Edition ? On Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Organization-Design-RISC-V...

I can recommend the browser extension "Make Medium Readable Again":

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-medium-r...

I am guessing here but Solus Linux isn't probably officially supported by Dell on the Developer Edition of this laptop (you have the Developer Edition, don't you?)

These were just examples from head, where I'd see it being used, but concrete examples are here: https://elixir-companies.com/

You can browse by industry, gaming here: https://elixir-companies.com/industries/gaming

Additionally, I believe Riot Games uses Erlang for their in-game chat and maybe other services. Also DemonWare (part of Activision Blizzard) used Erlang for CoD Black Ops, presentation here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erlan...

Anywhere where Erlang is used, Elixir can be used too :)

- chat / IMs backends

- multimedia streaming

- multiplayer game servers

Generally soft real-time systems

I agree about the inspect / pry not being a real debugger but could you expand on your problems with the debugger and pipelines?

Are you using the Erlang :debugger module?

The only "problem" I see is that we can't set a breakpoint on the first line of a Elixir pipeline, but to see the value of variable from that line we can set a breakpoint on the last line of the pipeline. To see why that happens we can try stepping through a pipeline with the debugger: First "executed" is the last line of the pipeline, then the second line, then third etc and it looks like for the debugger the first line of the pipeline never happened. I don't think this is a big problem to be honest.

There are more reasons, but

- better configuration (tweaked to this benchmark / hardware). Bigger communities will try harder to tweak their benchmark config. The Phoenix one is probably just the default one or slightly tweaked. Is the SQL connection pool size ideal? Are all default Phoenix-added Plugs ("middlewares") needed here? Is the BEAM virtual machine config / flags ideal? Would using OTP releases be beneficial?

- Elixir ecosystem is constantly improving the performance. The VM, language and packages versions should be updated. Elixir 1.6.5, Phoenix 1.3.2, and Ecto 2.1 are not recent.

- Abstractions used (and amount of them, so amount of work done at run-time). Compare the Fortunes "handler" implementation in vertx-postgres [1] to the Phoenix one [2]. Raw SQL vs generated query, almost bare DB connection pool vs Repository abstraction, and it's just the "handler". But you wouldn't want to maintain a lot of low level code.

- Typical functional language overhead. Copying (copying the conn when modifying it, Enum.sort on a list etc) is more expensive than modifying in-place. Again, functional code will be easier to maintain.

But overall I think in the particular benchmark you linked, Phoenix isn't that bad. Latency is pretty low and consistent (0.5 ms min and 9.9 ms max (!)) thanks to the BEAM pre-emptive scheduler. And BEAM will scale well vertically.

1. https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... 2. https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

Many people won't switch because either Firefox is slow on their platform (MacOS) or stuff they use are slow on Firefox (Google ecosystem, many other webapps optimized for Chrome)

Announcement link: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2018/11/lets-learn-elixir-t...

Works just fine in Edge. And TBH that's good enough for me, I don't think supporting IE is necessary for a tech-enthusiast targeted site.

First you need to find a technical co-founder you can trust. I saw a few founders fail because they thought they can manage communication with developers alone.

That's a common problem I had too, I often have to modify install scripts because of it

There's also Texas[1], which was presented on the same conference as LiveView.

[1] https://gitlab.com/dgmcguire/texas

The book OP mentioned is not an official one. The official book [1] is being kept up-to-date

[1] https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4

With the compression enabled in config it's decent on a good connection and I use it often.

Really heavyweight for the browser, and definitely not optimized for Firefox.

Did you try preconfigured Dokku images on Digital Ocean?

With Dart they can completely ditch the JVM and Oracle