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Elixir is very good at handling many connections without breaking. So you don't need to give it any special attention for good performance. Here a benchmark with a lot of clients posting to the once-campfire repos. Elixir mops the floor with the Rust versions.
The problem with all of this that keeps getting glossed over is that Elixir is requiring all of this special attention to get it to the numbers it can achieve. I also believe those numbers under represent Elixir's potential but this isn't a "which is fastest" benchmark. It is "which is fastest without knowing how to write in that stack" benchmark.
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Just so we are all on the same page:
* The Rust version has hundreds of commits, with multiple optimizations rounds, over several days. The others have 1 or 2 commits from an initial agentic rewrite
* Based on the available documentation, different things were asked from each attempt. The agents.md from Go mentions the Rust version was the canonical example. The Elixir one mentions it was the Rails one
* While we don’t have the full prompts, it seems they were vague, allowing the agents to make non-language architectural decisions that impact results (such as how closely it should replicate Rails’ drawbacks)
It is actually amazing how quickly we can have full-blown rewrites up and running. But if we want to take conclusions from the data presented, it is important to understand the process behind it.
The agents finished porting Campfire to Laravel and Django too. I'm sure there are optimizations that could be found there too, but the whole point is to get a sense of how frontier agents do with different environments out the box. github.com/basecamp/once-cam…
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the party that will likely win the local election in Berlin:
„we don’t need to work more.
we need to expropriate more.“
(this is the party that shot citizens fleeing the GDR, btw)
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Please remember that the overwhelming majority of people that you hear talk online about the current state of programming are not building anything that:
- is dealing with significant amounts of money
- has non-trivial financial risks from production defects
- is being collaborated on by even a single other person
- has been and is being iterated on over a long time scale
also remember that the overwhelming majority of takes online are:
- not coming from a place of actually wanting to provide you with useful information
- are at least in some capacity posturing. This industry is changing at a rapid pace and seeming ahead is of legitimate financial importance to individuals
- bad
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There are two distinct polar opposite camps right now
1. Engineers with enough experience to know maintainable code is a thing and how important it is to a real business
2. Those who don’t realize its a thing beyond “the harness/checks pass”
They could not be living in more different worlds right now
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Мне открылся портал в мир невероятных теория мироздания и кошмаров, ранее неведомых моему сознанию
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POV: Germany about to burn billions by giving SAP and Telekom the job to build a frontier AI model by 2045
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The EU has blocked a chat control skeptics talk on YouTube.
But here’s the thing, the content is in Finnish, and Finnish law allows for this exact thing.
So the EU is currently illegally blocking free press in Finland.
YouTube has just taken down the political discussion clip about the EU's Chat Control, and the video is no longer viewable in the EU.
This has been confirmed by several parties. The video is still available outside the EU.
@puheenaihefi podcast is a Finnish current affairs program with 60k subscribers. In this episode, Peter Sund, CEO of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (Kyberala ry) offered pointed criticism of the EU's new Chat Control directive, which was enacted under questionable circumstances.
Because the media is in Finnish, it is highly likely the censorship request came from a Finnish government official or a related party.
This makes it troublesome.
Because the Finnish constitution §12 guarantees freedom of expression.
Preventing political publications is a criminal offence: Abuse of Official Position, punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years.
You can listen to this episode on Apple Music and Spotify.
Spotify link open.spotify.com/episode/51E…
Dysfunctional YouTube link youtube.com/watch?v=dGaQCcwn…
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Elixir v1.20 released! Now officially a gradually typed language: Elixir type checks every single line of code, finding bugs and dead code, without developer overhead (no typing signatures) and extremely low false positives rate. Plus a faster compiler! Links and reports below.
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Ich bin so alt, ich erinnere mich noch daran, wie die Union 2025 angekündigt hat, dass sie nach der Wahl beim Bürgergeld 30 Milliarden Euro einsparen werde.
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I fucking hate
email login codes
and magic links
so much
I swear it's about to become the #1 reason for me to not use a product
just let me type in
a fucking
password
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I was VERY skeptical that the world needed another vibe-coding tool, but phoenix.new is really impressing me.
Maybe there is space for language specific builders in addition to the foundation model approaches?
I have a Gmail app live in Elixir in 1 hour🤯
phoenix.new is publicly available!
I can't wait to see what folks build and where this goes!
- remote AI runtime for full-stack app building, github workflows, etc
- Full in browser IDE and xterm, with root
- Preview URLs for any port
fly.io/blog/phoenix-new-the-…
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I just unveiled phoenix.new at ElixirConfEU – A @flydotio Remote AI runtime and app builder for phoenix. The fastest way to build full-stack realtime apps.
Registrations open next week! Experiment freely, share preview apps, and run anything!
