[givemeethekeys]

Isn't the whole point of abstraction to not care about whats underneath unless you really have to? But ideally, you don't because the abstraction is "good enough"?

I haven't heard anyone writing code in Elixir complain about performance issues.

[nesarkvechnep]

What’s up with the last paragraph? Nobody is complaining because the BEAM is good enough for the typical use case?

[dnautics]

because you're not reaching for elixir when you need performance.

btw we do sometimes bitch about performance :)

[abrookewood]

But then we have ports/NIFs etc that shell out to Rust & Zig ...

[nesarkvechnep]

Not a silver bullet. There are also C nodes but they’re used even less.

[dnautics]

> NIFs that shell to zig

I'm aware

[nesarkvechnep]

I asked because I do it sometimes too.

[givemeethekeys]

I meant to point out that, for the use-cases where functional languages are used - production performance seems very acceptable, compared to having to micromanage memory allocation.