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Re:Elixir v1.4.0 released on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:51PM (#13324023)
There is the LLVM backend in Erlang as of version 17. I haven't seen much info on it. I haven't seen anyone try to go the whole process from Erlang code to LLVM to Emscripten to JavaScript. I am interested to know what hurdles there might be, performance, etc.
Re:Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV on Sunday October 16, 2016 @10:01PM (#12722236)
Thanks!
Re:Elm and Phoenix/Elixir in Production for France TV on Sunday October 16, 2016 @07:11PM (#12721616)
If issues such as source maps are figured out, I would feel better about people using it. Also, I would like to work on its user friendliness.

Saying all of that, Elm is pretty nice and I really enjoy using it for some of the same reasons I enjoy Elixir.

Re:Elixir-mail – Build composable mail messages on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:26AM (#11073775)
There is documentation at hexdocs: http://hexdocs.pm/mail/
Re:Erlang Scheduler Details and Why They Matter on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @09:11AM (#11065327)
The Erlang scheduler is very interesting. I attempted to reimplement it in JavaScript with some success. It works like the first version of the scheduler but I could see web workers being used to make it more like the current version. https://github.com/bryanjos/processes
I enjoyed that post so much, I took a couple of minutes and made an Elixir version https://github.com/bryanjos/arithmetic.

The book is pretty expensive, but I want to get a copy.

Re:Rust for Python Programmers on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:05AM (#9611378)
I've switched from Python to Elixir. Python was my favorite language. I fell in love with functional programming after trying out Scala and spent a fair amount of time after trying out different languages to see which one was a good fit for me. Elixir is that language for me. When I start talking about it I seem to go on and on so I'll stop there.

I'm also a fan of rust and plan to use it for more system level programming as well. I think its going to open the door to systems programming for more people and I'm excited to see what comes out of it. Also, as someone who has done a fair bit of C/C++, I'm happy to see an alternative.

Re:Ask HN: What project are you working on? on Friday May 22, 2015 @01:35PM (#9589787)
I've been working on ElixirScript - https://github.com/bryanjos/elixirscript

Started in February and I've been able to write to test projects in it so far. But lots of work to go.

Re:Show HN: Hydrogen Brings Light Table to Atom on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @03:32PM (#9578650)
That looks so cool! I'm not an Atom user anymore (jumped back to Sublime), but this is the kind of thing that makes me want to jump back again. Wondering if there is an equivalent for Sublime.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't D more popular? on Saturday May 03, 2014 @09:21PM (#7692985)
I really want to start playing around with D but my biggest concern is the number of available libraries. That's not going to stop me from using it but it is a concern of mine.

Ask HN: Windows Cloud Hosting Suggestions?

Any suggestions for cloud hosting for windows. I somewhere to put two virtual servers. One would be a build server which needs windows in order to compile and package our application. I also want the ability to automate starting and stopping the server when a build is scheduled and completed respectfully. Another being an application server for an ASP.NET MVC application. Any suggestions on a...

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This looks great! Good job!
Re:Yoke a middleware framework for Vert.x 2.x on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @03:08PM (#5597266)
I was hoping something like this would come about for Vert.x. While I like Vert.x and want to use it more, I personally have trouble wrapping my head around certain things about it.
Re:ASk HN: Open Ended Playing Card "Game"? on Tuesday April 23, 2013 @10:51AM (#5595437)
I never heard of roll20 before, but it looks really cool. I'll have to give it a spin.

As for designing components and actions, maybe open ended to too far of a stretch and instead maybe have a "subset" of open ended. As in not cumbersome enough to prevent people from using it, but still open enough to make some creative card games possible.

ASk HN: Open Ended Playing Card "Game"?

Just a deck of cards and some users in a session who want to play some kind of game of cards with rules defined only for the specific session (ex. one group of users get together to play hearts, another group of users get together to play a game of spades, and yet another group create some new card game with their own rules). Already Exists? Possible? Good Idea?

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Re:Ask HN: Live Streaming Server? on Monday April 15, 2013 @10:05PM (#5555734)
Thanks I will give it a look.

Ask HN: Live Streaming Server?

Hi, I'm looking for a good live streaming server. The application in which I would be using it would be mainly audio. I'm looking for something that can support multiple streams at once and from different sources (ex. a user's webcam). Any ideas?

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This looks pretty cool. I will definitely be keeping an eye on how this develops.

Ask HN: Best SMS Payment Service?

We want to add SMS donation functionality to our site, digitaltipjar.com. We want a way for users to tip via SMS with the message being which performer to tip and how much. Is there a SMS payment service that closely maps to this use case?

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I made this because I'm always trying to find good new music that's usually distributed free online by the artist themselves. My friends know this and are always asking me to tell them what new music is out, where to get it, etc, etc. So I made this as an attempt to let them know what I think is good and also for other people to recommend music to others. This is also my first Node project (I mostly program in Python and Scala).
Re:Ask HN: Open source gamification for developers on Thursday March 14, 2013 @11:48PM (#5379140)
I would love to have something like this. Checking out Open Badges, it seems cool, but it looks like it's focused on skills, learning, etc. I would like something more generic. Xbox Achievements could be a good thing to look at for something to aim for in that it is defined enough that all games for the system can define them.

My thought is a simple standard api that allows apps to create badges that their users can earn. Users should be able to view their badges not only from the app that created them, but also a way to view all the badges they got from all the apps they received badges from. So the users maybe would have to have an account with the gamification system. Maybe OAuth could be used for apps to get permission to give badges to a user. Apps could also possibly get permission to view a users earned badges from other apps in order to perform some action like give a reward, etc.

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