News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Communicate Between Ruby and Elixir Using Erlang Ports and Erlectricity. Parent comment

Re:Communicate Between Ruby and Elixir Using Erlang Ports an... by brightball on Monday December 12, 2016 @01:49PM (#13160642)
The main use case would be if you had a very mature Ruby library without an Erlang/Elixir equivalent. I haven't run into much that I personally need that isn't already available, but there are definitely some gaps that this could help people jump in the short term.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Communicate Between Ruby and Elixir Using Erlang Ports an... by mfb2 on Monday December 12, 2016 @03:46PM (#13161747)
Agreed. Currently working with a host of legacy ruby projects that we're slowly migrating to elixir. We've used hack-arounds to leverage the existing ruby projects up until now. If this library proves to be production-worthy, it'll be a great bridge for addressing some technical debt.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Communicate Between Ruby and Elixir Using Erlang Ports an... by nullstyle on Monday December 12, 2016 @04:36PM (#13162149)
Erlectricity, from what I understand, was used extensively in at least one iteration of github's architecture. It has spent a lot of time in production deployments.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Communicate Between Ruby and Elixir Using Erlang Ports an... by iagooar on Monday December 12, 2016 @04:13PM (#13161962)
I work at an ISP with some gems that you just cannot find anywhere, in any language. We cannot just replace or rewrite them, some have been around for almost 10 years.
[ Parent | on HN ]