81: Elixir in a Burrito with Quinn and Digit

We talk with Digit and Quinn Wilton about the Burrito project. It wraps up Elixir to a single binary, enables cross-platform builds, and uses Zig to help while also enabling NIFs! They share how the security focused software they create uses this to run in isolated environments where Elixir can’t be installed. A really cool project that can be used for one-off scripts, long running CLI applications with full OTP features and more. They share some of the challenges they had to overcome in creating Burrito and how it being OpenSource helps the company and their project. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/81 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.13.1 – Elixir 1.13.1 released. Bug fixes. https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon – BeaconCMS announced by Dockyard https://twitter.com/1stAvenger/status/1474167882946957313 – Mike Binns talks about his work on BeaconCMS https://github.com/cloveapp/notion_renderer – Steve Bussey released a Notion renderer for Phoenix https://ziglang.org/download/0.9.0/release-notes.html – Zig release updates https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1477196958179680256 – Wojtek Mach gives context to the Zig release for Elixir https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_br/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v1180 – Nerves updates in time for the New Year https://twitter.com/NervesProject/status/1477054737921060869 – Nerves update announcement on Twitter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2/posts/3394103 – Grisp 2 Boards Kickstarter update Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://github.com/burrito-elixir/burrito https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run – Wojtek Mach's experiment https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware https://github.com/bake-bake-bake/bakeware – Bakeware project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8-9yZlye30 – Quinn's talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQb58bqwDOc – Digit's talk https://www.synopsys.com/ https://hex.pm/packages/teex https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir_make https://github.com/ndreynolds/ratatouille https://github.com/nsf/termbox https://ziglang.org/ https://llvm.org/ https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ Guest Information https://twitter.com/wilton_quinn – Quinn on Twitter https://github.com/QuinnWilton/ – Quinn on Github https://quinnwilton.com/ – Quinn's Site https://twitter.com/doawoo – Digit on Twitter https://github.com/doawoo – Digit on Github https://puppy.surf – Digit's Site Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!