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by nesarkvechnep 42 days ago
What’s up with the last paragraph? Nobody is complaining because the BEAM is good enough for the typical use case?
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because you're not reaching for elixir when you need performance.

btw we do sometimes bitch about performance :)

But then we have ports/NIFs etc that shell out to Rust & Zig ...
Not a silver bullet. There are also C nodes but they’re used even less.
> NIFs that shell to zig

I'm aware

I asked because I do it sometimes too.
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.