Elixir Mix is a weekly show focused on the Elixir programming community. Our panel discusses topics around functional programming, the Elixir ecosystem, and building real world apps with Elixir based tools and frameworks.
Episode 2: EMx 002: ElixirScript with Bryan Joseph
Panel:
- Charles Max Wood
- Josh Adams
- Justin Bean
Special Guests: Bryan Joseph
In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel discusses ElixirScript with Bryan Joseph. Bryan works for Revelry Labs, has been a programmer for about 10 years, and has worked with Elixir since about 2013. They talk about what ElixirScript is, why you would want to use it, and why he came about wanting to create it. They also touch on different open source libraries that he has created and the importance of usability.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- Bryan intro
- Elixir
- What is ElixirScript?
- Use it through a transpiler
- What are the biggest challenges facing ElixirScript?
- Usability
- Where would you use ElixirScript?
- Use it on web applications or on node
- How easy is it to use this on top of a front-end library?
- Hex packages
- What’s the build process like?
- There is a compile step
- Mix compile
- Include output folder in whatever app you are doing
- Creates ES modules
- What’s the most ambitious ElixirScript project going on right now?
- To-do application
- Was there a pain point at all?
- How far did you get with processes?
- Processes library
- Do have plans to move this over to WebAssembly?
- ElixirScript React Library
- Vue
- Webpack
- And much, much more!
Links:
- Revelry Labs
- Elixir
- ElixirScript
- Processes Library
- WebAssembly
- ElixirScript React Library
- Vue
- Webpack
- @bryanjos
- Brian’s GitHub
- Drab
Picks:
Charles
Justin
- Benchy
- God of War
Josh
- Capabilities 101
- erights.org
Bryan