[grantjpowell]

> Elixir sucks at:

> number-crunchy, like a shoot em up, or HPC.

> something which requires mutable bitmaps (someone this past weekend brought up "minecraft server")

One thing I'd like to see for the BEAM communities long term are well maintained libraries of NIFs[0] for high performance and possibly mutable data structures. Projects like rusterl[1] and the advances made on dirty schedulers make this more feasible than it used to be.

It would be cool to write all the high level components of a minecraft-esque game in Elixir, and drop down to rust when you need raw performance. Similar to the relationship between lua/c++ in some modern game engines

[0] http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html

[1] https://github.com/rusterlium/rustler

[dnautics]

I'm in agreement; though I don't like rust (can't read it) and am the author of https://hexdocs.pm/zigler/Zigler.html