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by linkdd 1901 days ago
> libraries can be created and not need constant breaking updates.

Yeah, but I've been traumatized by the Javascript ecosystem where a library can end up abandoned any day without warning.

> As an Elixir developer, I never go to Awesome Elixir to search for libraries.

I needed a full implementation of the iCalendar RFC (including recurrence rules), this is a solved problem in Go, Python and Javascript, but not in Elixir.

And I didn't want to spend weeks on partially implementing that huge RFC.

I ended up using Rambo[1] and an external binary in Go that I ship with my release in a Docker image.

I set up a build system based on Makefiles to build everything properly, and compile-time configuration per environment to locate the binary.

  [1] - https://github.com/jayjun/rambo
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Seems to be nicely solved in Ruby as well! https://github.com/icalendar/icalendar . Just saying...